Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Getting Started -- Writing a simple C++ program -- Compiling and executing our program -- A first look at input/output -- Standard input and output objects -- A program that uses the IO library -- A word about comments -- Control stru

Chapter 5. Expressions -- Arithmetic operators -- Relational and logical operators -- The bitwise operators -- Using bitset objects or integral values -- Using the bitwise operators for IO -- Assignment operators -- Assignment is right associati

Part II Containers and Algorithms -- Chapter 9. Sequential Containers -- Defining a sequential container -- Initializing container elements -- Constraints on types that a container can hold -- Iterators and iterator ranges -- Iterator ranges --

Part III Classes and Data Abstraction -- Chapter 12. Classes -- Class definitions and declarations -- Class definitions: a recap -- Data abstraction and encapsulation -- More on class definitions -- Class declarations versus definitions -- Class

Part IV Object-Oriented and Generic Programming -- Chapter 15. Object-oriented programming -- OOP: an overview -- Defining base and derived classes -- Defining a base class -- protected members -- Derived Class -- virtual and other member functi

Part V Advanced Topics -- Chapter 17. Tools for Large Programs -- Exception handling -- Throwing an exception of class type -- Stack unwinding -- Catching an exception -- Rethrow -- The catch-all handler -- Function try blocks and constructors -