Want to learn how to program in C++ immediately? Want to start writing better, more powerful C++ programs today? Accelerated C++'s uniquely modern approach will help you learn faster and more fluently than you ever believed possible. Based on the authors' intensive summer C++ courses at Stanford University, Accelerated C++ covers virtually every concept that most professional C++ programmers will ever use -- but it turns the "traditional" C++ curriculum upside down, starting with the high-level C++ data structures and algorithms that let you write robust programs immediately. Once you're getting results, Accelerated C++ takes you "under the hood," introducing complex language features such as memory management in context, and explaining exactly how and when to use them. From start to finish, the book concentrates on solving problems, rather than learning language and library features for their own sake. The result: You'll be writing real-world programs in no time -- and outstanding code faster than you ever imagined.

Table of Contents

Chapter O Getting started

Chapter 1 Working with strings

Chapter 2 Looping and counting

Chapter 3 Working with batches of data

Chapter 4 Organizing programs and data

Chapter 5 Using sequential containers and analyzing strings

Chapter 6 Using library algorithms

Chapter 7 Using associative containers

Chapter 8 Writing generic functions

Chapter 9 Defining new types

Chapter 10 Managing memory and low-level data structures

Chapter 11 Defining abstract data types

Chapter 12 Making class objects act like values

Chapter 13 Using inheritance and dynamic binding

Chapter 14 Managing memory (almost) automatically

Chapter 15 Revisiting character pictures

Chapter 16 Where do we go from here?

Appendix A: Language details

Appendix B: Library summary

About the Authors

Andrew Koenig is a member of the Large-Scale Programming Research Department at AT&T's Shannon Laboratory, and the Project Editor of the C++ standards committee. A programmer for more than 30 years, 15 of them in C++, he has published more than 150 articles about C++, and speaks on the topic worldwide.

Barbara E. Moo is an independent consultant with 20 years' experience in the software field. During her nearly 15 years at AT&T, she worked on one of the first commercial products ever written in C++, managed the company's first C++ compiler project, and directed the development of AT&T's award-winning WorldNet Internet service business.