Book Description
With nearly 250,000 sold, Harvey and Paul Deitel'sC++ How to Programis the world's best-selling introduction to C++ programming. Now, this classic has been thoroughly updated! The authors have given this edition a general tune-up of object-oriented programming presentation. The new Fourth Edition has a new code-highlighting style that uses an alternate background color to focus the reader on new code elements in a program. The Deitels' C++ How to Program is the most comprehensive, practical introduction to C++ ever published -- with hundreds of hands-on exercises, roughly 250 complete programs written and documented for easy learning, and exceptional insight into good programming practices, maximizing performance, avoiding errors, debugging, and testing. This new Fourth Edition has an upgraded OOD/UML case to latest UML standard, as well as significant improvements to exception handling and operator overloading chapters. Features enhanced treatment of strings and arrays as objects earlier in the book using standard C++ classes, string and vector. The Fourth Edition retains every key concept and technique ANSI C++ developers need to master: control structures, functions, arrays, pointers and strings, classes and data abstraction, operator overloading, inheritance, virtual functions, polymorphism, I/O, templates, exception handling, file processing, data structures, and more. It also includes a detailed introduction to Standard Template Library (STL) containers, container adapters, algorithms, and iterators. The accompanying CD-ROM includes all the code from the book as well as essential software for learning C++. For anyone who wants to learn C++, improve their existing C++ skills, and master object-oriented development with C++.

From the Back Cover
The complete, authoritative DEITEL™ LIVE-CODE™ introduction to C++, Object-Oriented Design (OOD) with the UML™ and Web programming with CGI. This Fourth Edition of the world's most widely used C++ textbook explains C++'s extraordinary capabilities, presents an optional object-oriented design and implementation case study with the Unified Modeling Language (UML) from the Object Management Group™, and introduces n-tier Web-applications development with CGI. Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized corporate-training and content-creation organization specializing in C++, C, Visual C++® .NET, Java™, C#, Visual Basic® .NET, XML, Python, Perl, Internet, Web, .NET and object technologies. The Deitels are the authors of several of the world's best-selling programming-language textbooks, including Java How to Program, 4/e, and Internet & World Wide Web How to Program, 2/e. In C++ How to Program, 4/e, the Deitels introduce the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and generic programming in C++. Key topics include: Control structures/Functions/Pointers Classes/Objects/Encapsulation OOP/inheritance/Polymorphism Object-Oriented Design with the UML string and vector objects Pointer-based arrays and strings Exception handling/Operator overloading Templates/Data structures/Files/Streams Standard Template Library (STL) Bit and character manipulation Namespaces/Run-Time Type Information N-tier Web applications/CGI/XHTMLTM™ C++ How to Program, 4/e, helps students build real-world C++ applications. It includes: Hundreds of LIVE-CODE™ programs with screen captures that show exact outputs Extensive Internet and World Wide Web resources to encourage further research Hundreds of tips, recommended practices and cautions—all marked with icons C++ How to Program's teaching resources include Web sites (http://www.deitel.com, http://www.prenhall.com/deitel and http://www.informit.com/deitel) with the book's code examples (also on the enclosed CD) and information for faculty, students and professionals; an optional CD (C++ Multimedia Cyber Classroom, 4/e) with solutions to approximately half the exercises in C++ How to Program, 4/e, interactivity features—including hyperlinks and audio walkthroughs of the code examples.

About the Author
Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has 41 years experience in the computing field, including extensive industry and academic experience. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He worked on the pioneering virtual-memory operating-systems projects at IBM and MIT that developed techniques now widely implemented in systems such as UNIX, Linux and Windows XP. He has 20 years of college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., with his son, Paul J. Deitel. He and Paul are the co-authors of several dozen books and multimedia packages and they are writing many more. With translations published in Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Urdu and Turkish, the Deitels' texts have earned international recognition. Dr. Deitel has delivered professional seminars to major corporations, government organizations and various branches of the military. Paul J. Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, where he studied Information Technology. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc., he has delivered C, C++, Java, Internet and World Wide Web courses to industry clients, including Compaq, Sun Microsystems, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, Dell, Stratus, Fidelity, Cambridge Technology Partners, Open Environment Corporation, One Wave, Hyperion Software, Lucent Technologies, Adra Systems, Entergy, CableData Systems, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storm Laboratory, IBM and many other organizations. He has lectured on C++ and Java for the Boston Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery and has taught satellite-based Java courses through a cooperative venture of Deitel & Associates, Prentice Hall and the Technology Education Network. He and his father, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are the world's best-selling Computer Science textbook authors.

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Welcome to ANSI/ISO Standard C++! At Deitel & Associates, we write college-level programming-language textbooks and professional books and work hard to keep our published books up-to-date with a steady flow of new editions. Writing C++ How to Program, Fourth Edition, (4/e for short), was a joy. This book and its support materials have everything instructors and students need for an informative, interesting, challenging and entertaining C++ educational experience. As the book goes to publication, it is compliant with the latest version of the ANSI/ISO C++ Standard (one of the most important worldwide standards for the computing community) and with object-oriented design using the latest version of the UML (Unified Modeling Language) from the Object Management Group (OMG). We tuned the writing, the pedagogy, our coding style, the book's ancillary package and even added a substantial treatment of developing Internet- and Web-based applications. We have added a comprehensive Tour of the Book section to Chapter 1. This will help instructors, students and professionals get a sense of the rich coverage the book provides of C++ object-oriented programming, object-oriented design with the UML and generic programming. If you are evaluating the book, please read the Tour of the Book now in pages 44-46. Whether you are an instructor, a student, an experienced professional or a novice programmer, this book has much to offer. C++ is a world-class programming language for developing industrial-strength, high-performance computer applications. We carefully audited the manuscript against the ANSI/ISO C++ standard document, which defines C++, and we were privileged to have as a reviewer Steve Clamage of Sun Microsystems who heads the ANSI J16 Committee responsible for evolving the C++ standard. As a result, the programs you create by studying this text should port easily to any ANSI/ISO-compliant compiler.

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