Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

C++ Overview.

1. Getting Started.

2. Fundamental Types, Operators and Simple Variables.

3. Looping and Making Decisions.

4. Namespaces & the C++ Standard Library.

5. Writing Functions in C++.

6. Behaviour, Sequence Points & Order of Evaluation.

7. Generic Functions.

8. User Defined Types, Part 1: typedef and enum.

9. User Defined Types, Part 2: Simple classes (value types).

10. User Defined Types, Part 3: Simple classes (homogeneous entity types).

11. Pointers, Smart Pointers, Iterators & Dynamic Instances.

12. User Defined Types, Part 4: Class Hierarchies, Polymorphism, Inheritance and Subtypes.

13. Dynamic Object Creation and Polymorphic Objects.

14. Streams, Files & Persistence.

15. Exceptions.

16. Overloading Operators & Conversion Operators.

17. Containers, Iterators and Algorithms.

18. Something Old, Something New.

Appendix A: Those Who Went Before.

References.

Index.