Lippman S.B. Essential C++

Publisher: Addison Wesley
Pub Date: September 12, 2002
ISBN: 0-201-48518-4
Pages: 416"Readers can pick up this book and become familiar with C++ in a short time. Stan has
taken a very broad and complicated topic and reduced it to the essentials that budding
C++ programmers need to know to write real programs. His case study is effective and
provides a familiar thread throughout the book. " -Steve Vinoski, IONA
For the practicing programmer with little time to spare, Essential C++ offers a fast-track
to learning and working with C++ on the job. This book is specifically designed to bring
you up to speed in a short amount of time. It focuses on the elements of C++
programming that you are most likely to encounter and examines features and techniques
that help solve real-world programming challenges.
Essential C++ presents the basics of C++ in the context of procedural, generic, object-
based, and object-oriented programming. It is organized around a series of increasingly
complex programming problems, and language features are introduced as solutions to
these problems. In this way you will not only learn about the functions and structure of
C++, but will understand their purpose and rationale.