The C++ Programming Language

Here is the definitive reference and guide to the C++ programming language which was designed and implemented by author Bjarne Stroustrup. C++ is the result of years of experiments and research at AT&T Bell Laboratories to create a successor to C. It is already heavily used in many AT&T Bell Laboratories projects.

C++ is a superset of C that retains the efficiency and notational convenience of C, while providing facilities for:

• type checking
• data abstraction
• operator overloading
• object-oriented programming

This book contains the tutorial and explanatory material necessary to allow a serious programmer to learn C++ and to complete real projects. The text is intended for computer science students and professional programmers who want to learn about this latest development of the C programming language.

• Notes to the Reader
• The Stucture of This Book
• Implementation Notes
• Exercises
• Design Notes
• Historical Note
• Efficiency and StructurePhilisophical Note
• Thinking about Programming in C++
• Rules of Thumb
• Note to C Programmers
• References

1. A Tour of C++
1. Introduction
2. Comments
3. Types and Declarations
4. Expressions and Statements
5. Functions
6. Program Structure
7. Classes
8. Operator Overloading
9. References
10. Constructors
11. Vectors
12. Inline Expansion
13. Derived Classes
14. More about Operators
15. Friends
16. Generic Vectors
17. Polymorphic Vectors
18. Virtuasl Functions
2. Declarations and Constants
1. Declarations
2. Names
3. Types
4. Constants
5. Saving Space
6. Exercises
3. Expressions and Statements
1. A Desk Calculator
2. Operator Summary
3. Statement Summary
4. Comments and Indentation
5. Exercises
4. Functions and Files
1. Introduction
2. Linkage
3. Header Files
4. Files as Moodules
5. How to Make a Library
6. Functions
7. Macros
8. Exercises
5. Classes
1. Introduction and Overview
2. Classes and Members
3. Interfaces and Implementations
4. Friends and Unions
5. Constructors and Destructors
6. Exercises
6. Operator Overloading
1. Introduction
2. Operastor Functions
3. User-defined Type Conversion
4. Constants
5. Large Objects
6. Assignment and Initialization
7. Subscripting
8. Function Call
9. A String Class
10. Friends and Members
11. Caveat
12. Exercises
7. Derived Classes
1. Introduction
2. Derived Classes
3. Alternative Interfaces
4. Adding to a Class
5. Heterogeneous Lists
6. A Complete Program
7. Free Store
8. Exercises
8. Streams
1. Introduction
2. Output
3. Files and Streams
4. Input
5. String Manipulation
6. Buffering
7. Efficiency
8. Exercises

• Reference Manual
1. Introduction
2. Lexical Conventions
3. Syntax Notation
4. Names and Types
5. Objects and Lvalues
6. Conversions
7. Expressions
8. Declarations
9. Statements
10. Function Definitions
11. Compiler Control Lines
12. Constant Expressions
13. Portability Considerations
14. Syntax Summary
15. Differences from C

The original definition of C++. No longer valid, but of historical interest.