Pohl I. C++ By Dissection

Addison-Wesley, 2002. ISBN 0-201-74396-
5. University of California, Santa Cruz.
Today, the ANSI C++ programming language is widely used throughout the world in
both academia and industry. In many educational institutions it is the language of
choice for a first programming course and for a language to be used for computer sci-
ence instruction. A key reason for this is that C++ has drifted down the curriculum
from more advanced courses to more introductory courses. Further, C++ comes with
many useful libraries, and is supported by sophisticated integrated environments. It is
a language that efficiently supports object-oriented programming (OOP) the dominant
contemporary programming methodology.
C++ by Dissection presents a thorough introduction to the programming process by
carefully developing working programs to illuminate key features of the C++ program-
ming language. Program code is explained in an easy-to-follow, careful manner through-
out. The code has been tested on several platforms and is found on the bundled CD-
rom accompanying this text. The code in C++ By Dissection can be used with most C++
systems, including those found in operating systems such as MacOS, MS-DOS, OS/2,
Unix, and Windows.
C++, invented at Bell Labs by Bjarne Stroustrup in the mid-1980s, is a powerful, mod-
ern, successor language to C. C++ adds to C the concept of class, a mechanism for pro-
viding user-defined types, also called abstract data types. C++ supports object-oriented
programming by these means and by providing inheritance and runtime type binding.