Includes index.

Contents: An Overview of computers and programming languages -- Basic elements of C++ -- Input/output -- Control structures I (selection) -- Control structures II (repetition) -- User-defined functions I -- User-defined functions II -- User-defined simple data types, namespaces, and the string type -- Arrays and strings -- Records (structs) -- Classes and data abstraction -- Inheritance and composition -- Pointers, classes, lists, and virtual functions -- Overloading and templates -- Exception handling -- Recursion -- Linked lists -- Stacks and queues -- Searching and sorting algorithms -- Binary trees -- Graphs -- Standard template library (STL) -- Appendix A: Reserved words -- Appendix B: Operator precedence -- Appendix C: Character sets -- Appendix D: Operator overloading -- Appendix E: Additional c++ topics -- Appendix F: Header files -- Appendix G: Memory size on a system and random number generator -- Appendix H: References -- Appendix I: Answers to selected exercises.