On to C++ - Softcover

Read this book if you want to add C++ to your programming-language repertoire. If you are a practicing programmer, you can use this book to learn the essentials of the language. If you are a student, you can use it to learn C++ to prepare for real-world work. You also can use this book to learn about the benefits of object-oriented programming and how to maximize those benefits through the principled design of C++ class hierarchies.

You learn the key concepts as features are added to a short, yet representative C++ program. The program uses knowledge about containers and railroad cars to display a capacity report for a freight train, thereby demonstrating the ability of C++ classes to capture knowledge about naturally occurring categories.

As you see the class-enabled program evolve, you learn how to:

• create classes and objects
• define constructor, reader, and writer functions
• benefit from data abstraction
• inherit member variable values and member functions
• create new class objects at run time
• find the right function at run time
• use constructors in class hierarchies
• use protected and private member variables and member functions
• use protected and private member variables and member functions
• use protected and private class derivations
• design class hierarchies
• reuse class definitions using templates
• and much, much more.

About Patrick Henry Winston

Well-known author Patrick Henry Winston teaches computer science and directs the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.