本书为那些没有太多时间学习的程序员提供了一条在工作中学习C++的捷径。它把**放在那些C++编程中重要的要素上,并覆盖能够帮助解决实际编程问题的特性和技术。
本书将C++的基本内容按照过程风格、泛型风格、基于对象风格,以及面向对象风格进行组织。本书采用复杂度渐进的风格展开,并在讨论解决方案的过程中引入语言特性,便于学习C++的功能和结构,同时理解其目的和基本理念。
书中完整深入探讨了以下主要内容:
泛型编程和标准模板库(STL)
基于对象的编程和类的设计面向对象的编程和类层次体系的设计
函数和类模板的设计和使用
异常处理和运行时类型信息(RTTI)
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序言
前言
Chapter 1: Basic C++ Programming
1.1: How to Write a C++ Program
1.2: Defining and Initializing a Data Object
1.3: Writing Expressions
1.4: Writing Conditional and Loop Statements
1.5: How to Use Arrays and Vectors
1.6: Pointers Allow for Flexibility
1.7: Writing and Reading Files
Chapter 2: Procedural Programming
2.1: How to Write a Function
2.2: Invoking a Function
2.3: Providing Default Parameter Values
2.4: Using Local Static Objects
2.5: Declaring a Function Inline
2.6: Providing Overloaded Functions
2.7: Defining and Using Template Functions
2.8: Pointers to Functions Add Flexiblity
2.9: Setting Up a Header File
Chapter 3: Generic Programming
3.1: The Arithmetic of Pointers
3.2: Making Sense of Iterators
3.3: Operations Common to All Containers
3.4: Using the Sequential Containers
3.5: Using the Generic Algorithms
3.6: How to Design a Generic Algorithm
3.7: Using a Map
3.8: Using a Set
3.9: How to Use Iterator Inserters
3.10: Using the iostream Iterators
Chapter 4: Object-Based Programming
4.1: How to Implement a Class
4.2: What Are Class Constructors and the Class Destructor?
4.3: What Are mutable and const?
4.4: What Is the this Pointer?
4.5: Static Class Members
4.6: Building an Iterator Class
4.7: Collaboration Sometimes Requires Friendship
4.8: Implementing a Copy Assignment Operator
4.9: Implementing a Function Object
4.10: Providing Class Instances of the iostream Operators
4.11: Pointers to Class Member Functions
Chapter 5: Object-Oriented Programming
5.1: Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
5.2: A Tour of Object-Oriented Programming
5.3: Polymorphism without Inheritance
5.4: Defining an Abstract Base Class
5.5: Defining a Derived Class
5.6: Using an Inheritance Hierarchy
5.7: How Abstract Should a Base Class Be?
5.8: Initialization, Destruction, and Copy
5.9: Defining a Derived Class Virtual Function
5.10: Run-Time Type Identification
Chapter 6: Programming with Templates
6.1: Parameterized Types
6.2: The Template Class Definition
6.3: Handling Template Type Parameters
6.4: Implementing the Template Class
6.5: A Function Template Output operator
6.6: Constant Expressions and Default Parameters
6.7: Template Parameters as Strategy
6.8: Member Template Functions
Chapter 7: Exception Handling
7.1: Throwing an Exception
7.2: Catching an Exception
7.3: Trying for an Exception
7.4: Local Resource Management
7.5: The Standard Exceptions
Appendix A: Exercise Solutions
Appendix B: Generic Algorithms Handbook
Index
注释

StanleyB.Lippman是梦工厂动画公司核心技术小组的成员。在加入梦工厂之前,Stan是迪斯尼动画公司的**软件工程师。他在贝尔实验室期间领导过cfront3.0版和2.1版编译器开发团队。他曾经是BjarneStroustrup领导下的贝尔实验室基金会项目的一员。Stan著有广受欢迎的《C++Primer》和《InsidetheC++ObjectModle》。他曾编辑由剑桥大学出版社出版的《C++Gem》。他还是多部动画长片的制作成员,其中包括《巴黎圣母院》和《幻想曲2000》。