Introduction

The C Language and its Advantages

The Structure of a C Program

Writing C Programs

Building an Executable Version of a C Program

Debugging a C Program

Examining and Running a C Application Program

 

Data Types and Variables

Data Types

Operands, Operators, and Arithmetic Expressions

 

Input/Output Management

The Input/Output Concept

Formatted Input Function

 

Control-Flow Statements

The Control-Flow Program Statements

Looping Statements

The Data-checking process

 

Modular Programming with Functions

The C Function

Passing Data to Functions

Passing an Address to Modify a Value in Memory

Using Functions in the Checkbook Program

C Standard Library Functions

 

Arrays, Pointers, and Strings

Arrays, Pointers, Strings

Using Arrays, Strings, and Pointers in the Checkbook Program

 

Structures

Structures

Arrays of Structures

Passing Structures to Functions

Nesting Structures

 

File Input/Output

Command-line Arguments

Combining Command-line

 

Introduction to C++

Creating a project

Writing, compiling and running a program

 

Variables and data types

Expressions

Constants

Operators

Type conversions

 

Looping constructs: while, do…while for loops

If…else statements

Switch/case construct

 

Functions

Passing arguments

Function prototyping

Default argument initializers

Inline functions

 

Arrays

Array initialization

Multi-dimensional arrays

Character arrays

Working with character strings

 

Storage Classes

Global variables

 

Pointers

Pointer and arrays

Pointers to character strings

Arrays of pointers

Memory slicing

Pointers to functions

 

C++ classes

Data members and member functions

Creating objects

The new and delete operators

Friends to a class

Class initialization

 

Reference types

Reference type arguments

 

Function overloading

Operator overloading

 

Copy constructor

Assignment operator

 

Template classes

Static class members

File streams

 

Inheritance

Base classes and derived classes

Inherited member access

Base class initialization

Protected members of a class

 

Virtual functions

Virtual destructors

 

Virtual base classes

Virtual base class member access

Constructor and destructor ordering

 

Exception handling

try…throw…catch block

Nested catch handlers