Starting Out with C++ Early Objects

Introduce students to the basics of C++ programming 

• Written in clear, friendly, easy-to-understand language. The material is written specifically for beginner students, and thoroughly explains important concepts.
  
• Teaches C++ in a step-by-step fashion. Each chapter covers a major set of topics and builds knowledge as the student progresses through the book. Although the chapters can be easily taught in their existing sequence, flexibility is also provided.
  
• New and Updated - New features of the C++11 standard have been added or expanded throughout the text.
  
• New or Revised - Many topics have had material revised or added, for example, alternate forms of variable initialization, Boolean expressions and variables, and character conversion and testing.
  
• New and Updated - The material on the Standard Template Library (STL) has been moved to its own dedicated chapter and rewritten with expanded information.
  
• Revised - The bubble sort algorithm (Chapter 9) has been completely rewritten for better student comprehension.
  
• New - Information on increasing this algorithm’s efficiency has been added.
  
• New - Thirteen new figures illustrate both the bubble sort and selection sort functions.
  
• New and Updated - Figures throughout the book have been added and improved to help students visualize important concepts.
  

Features for student success 

• Hundreds of Example Programs are used, each designed to highlight specific programming topics. In most cases, these are practical, real-world examples.  Source code for these programs is provided so that students can run the programs themselves.
  
• Concept Statements, Checkpoints, Notes, Tips and Warnings all call out important pieces of information for the student
  
• Case studies appear in many chapters throughout the text and additional case studies are provided on the book’s companion site (www.pearson.com/gaddis).  
  
• A thorough and diverse set of Review Questions, such as fill-in-the-blank and short answer, check students’ mastery of the basic material presented in each chapter. These are followed by exercises requiring problem solving and analysis, such as the Algorithm Workbench, Predict the Output, and Find the Errors sections.
  
• Programming Challenges presented in each chapter are designed to solidify students’ knowledge of the topics, typically through real-world problems to be solved. 
  
• New and Updated - Programs, checkpoint questions, end-of-chapter questions and exercises, and programming challenge problems have been added and updated throughout the book.

Tony Gaddis is the principal author of the Starting Out With series of textbooks. Tony has nearly two decades of experience teaching computer science courses, primarily at Haywood Community College. He is a highly acclaimed instructor who was previously selected as the North Carolina Community College “Teacher of the Year” and has received the Teaching Excellence award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development. The Starting Out With series includes introductory books covering C++, Java™, Microsoft® Visual Basic®, Microsoft® C#®, Python®, Programming Logic and Design, Alice, and App Inventor, all published by Pearson.

Judy Walters is an Associate Professor Emerita at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, where she was a member of the Computer Science faculty for 33 years and served as Department Chair for six years. Of the many courses she taught, her favorites were introductory courses such as Discrete Structures and the freshman programming sequence. She now divides her time between Illinois and Costa Rica, where she continues programming, writing, publishing, and doing volunteer work with local students.

Godfrey Muganda is a Professor of Computer Science Emeritus at North Central College in Naperville. During his 27 years at North Central, he taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses, including algorithms, computer networks and security, compiler design, and web applications. He now spends his time enjoying his family, learning cool computer science stuff, teaching an occasional course, and writing.

1. Introduction to Computers and Programming

2. Introduction to C++

3. Expressions and Interactivity

4. Making Decisions

5. Looping

6. Functions

7. Introduction to Classes and Objects

8. Arrays and Vectors

9. Searching, Sorting, and Algorithm Analysis

10. Pointers

11. More about Classes and Object-Oriented Programming

12. More on C-Strings and the string Class

13. Advanced File and I/O Operations

14. Recursion

15. Polymorphism and Virtual Functions

16. Exceptions and Templates

17. The Standard Template Library (STL)

18. Linked Lists

19. Stacks and Queues

20. Binary Trees

    Appendix A: The ASCII Character Set

    Appendix B: Operator Precedence and Associativity

    Appendix C: Answers to Checkpoints

    Appendix D: Answers to Odd-Numbered Review Questions