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Chapter0 Introduction/GettingStarted

0.1 Introductiontothesetutorials

0.2 Introductiontoprogramminglanguages
0.3 IntroductiontoC/C++

0.4 Introductiontodevelopment

0.5 InstallinganIntegratedDevelopmentEnvironment(IDE)

0.6 Compilingyourfirstprogram
0.6a Buildconfigurations
0.7 AfewcommonC++problems

Chapter1 C++Basics

1.1 Structureofaprogram
1.2 Comments

1.3 Afirstlookatvariables,initialization,andassignment
1.3a Afirstlookatcout,cin,andendl
1.4 Afirstlookatfunctionsandreturnvalues

1.4a Afirstlookatfunctionparametersandarguments
1.4b Whyfunctionsareuseful,andhowtousethemeffectively
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1.4c Keywordsandnamingidentifiers
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1.4d Afirstlookatlocalscope
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1.5 Afirstlookatoperators
1.6 Whitespaceandbasicformatting
1.7 Forwarddeclarationsanddefinitions

1.8 Programswithmultiplefiles
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Namingconflictsandthestdnamespace

1.9 Headerfiles
1.10 Afirstlookatthepreprocessor
1.10a Headerguards
1.10b Howtodesignyourfirstprograms

1.11 Debuggingyourprogram(steppingandbreakpoints)
1.11a Debuggingyourprogram(watchingvariablesandthecallstack)
1.12 Chapter1comprehensivequiz

Chapter2 VariablesandFundamentalDataTypes

2.1 Fundamentalvariabledefinition,initialization,andassignment
2.2 Void
2.3 Variablesizesandthesizeofoperator
2.4 Integers

2.4a Fixedwidthintegers
2.5 Floatingpointnumbers
2.6 Booleanvaluesandanintroductiontoifstatements
2.7 Chars

2.8 Literals
2.9 Const,constexpr,andsymbolicconstants
2.10 Chapter2comprehensivequiz

Chapter3 Operators

3.1 Operatorprecedenceandassociativity

3.2 Arithmeticoperators
3.3 Increment/decrementoperators,andsideeffects
3.4 Sizeof,comma,andconditionaloperators
3.5 Relationaloperators(comparisons)
3.6 Logicaloperators
3.7 Convertingbetweenbinaryanddecimal
3.8 Bitwiseoperators
3.8a Bitflagsandbitmasks
3.x Chapter3comprehensivequiz

Chapter4 VariableScopeandMoreTypes

4.1 Blocks(compoundstatements)
4.1a Localvariables,scope,andduration
4.2 Globalvariablesandlinkage

4.2a Whyglobalvariablesareevil
4.3 Staticdurationvariables
4.3a Scope,duration,andlinkagesummary
4.3b Namespaces
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Usingstatements

4.4 Implicittypeconversion(coercion)

4.4a Explicittypeconversion(casting)
4.4b Anintroductiontostd::string
4.5 Enumeratedtypes
 4.5a Enumclasses
4.6 Typedefsandtypealiases

4.7 Structs
4.8 Theautokeyword
4.x Chapter4comprehensivequiz

Chapter5 ControlFlow

5.1 Controlflowintroduction
5.2 Ifstatements
5.3 Switchstatements
5.4 Gotostatements
5.5 Whilestatements
5.6 Dowhilestatements
5.7 Forstatements
5.8 Breakandcontinue

5.9 Randomnumbergeneration
5.10 std::cin,extraction,anddealingwithinvalidtextinput
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5.11 Introductiontotestingyourcode
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5.x Chapter5comprehensivequiz

Chapter6 Arrays,Strings,Pointers,andReferences

6.1 Arrays(PartI)

6.2 Arrays(PartII)
6.3 Arraysandloops

6.4 Sortinganarrayusingselectionsort

6.5 Multidimensionalarrays
6.6 Cstylestrings

6.7 Introductiontopointers
6.7a Nullpointers

6.8 Pointersandarrays
6.8a Pointerarithmeticandarrayindexing

6.8b Cstylestringsymbolicconstants
6.9 Dynamicmemoryallocationwithnewanddelete

6.9a Dynamicallyallocatingarrays

6.10 Pointersandconst
6.11 Referencevariables

6.12 Memberselectionwithpointersandreferences
6.12a Foreachloops

6.13 Voidpointers
 6.14 Pointerstopointers
6.15 Anintroductiontostd::array

6.16 Anintroductiontostd::vector

6.x Chapter6comprehensivequiz

Chapter7 Functions

7.1 Functionparametersandarguments
7.2 Passingargumentsbyvalue

7.3 Passingargumentsbyreference

7.4 Passingargumentsbyaddress
7.4a Returningvaluesbyvalue,reference,andaddress

7.5 Inlinefunctions
7.6 Functionoverloading

7.7 Defaultparameters
7.8 FunctionPointers

7.9 Thestackandtheheap
7.10 std::vectorcapacityandstackbehavior

7.11 Recursion

7.12 Handlingerrors(assert,cerr,exit,andexceptions)
7.13 Commandlinearguments

7.14 Ellipsis(andwhytoavoidthem)
7.x Chapter7comprehensivequiz

Chapter8 Basicobjectorientedprogramming

8.1 Welcometoobjectorientedprogramming
8.2 Classesandclassmembers

8.3 Publicvsprivateaccessspecifiers
8.4 Accessfunctionsandencapsulation
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8.5 May13
Constructors

8.5a Constructormemberinitializerlists
8.5b Nonstaticmemberinitialization

8.6 Overlappinganddelegatingconstructors
8.7 Destructors

8.8 Thehiddenthispointer
8.9 Classcodeandheaderfiles

8.10 Constclassobjectsandmemberfunctions
8.11 Staticmembervariables

8.12 Staticmemberfunctions

8.13 Friendfunctionsandclasses
 8.14 Anonymousvariablesandobjects

8.x Chapter8comprehensivequiz

Chapter9 Operatoroverloading

9.1 Introductiontooperatoroverloading

9.2 Overloadingthearithmeticoperatorsusingfriendfunctions

9.2a Overloadingoperatorsusingnormalfunctions
9.3 OverloadingtheI/Ooperators

9.4 Overloadingoperatorsusingmemberfunctions
9.5 Overloadingunaryoperators+,,and!

9.6 Overloadingthecomparisonoperators
9.7 Overloadingtheincrementanddecrementoperators

9.8 Overloadingthesubscriptoperator
9.9 Overloadingtheparenthesisoperator

9.10 Overloadingtypecasts

9.11 Thecopyconstructor
9.12 Copyinitialization

9.13 Convertingconstructors,explicit,anddelete
9.14 Overloadingtheassignmentoperator

9.15 Shallowvs.deepcopying
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Chapter9comprehensivequiz

Chapter10 Anintroductiontoobjectrelationships

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Objectrelationships

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10.2 Composition
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10.3 Aug16
Aggregation

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10.4 Aug19
Association

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10.5 Dependencies
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10.6 Containerclasses
Aug25

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10.x Sep12
Chapter10comprehensivequiz

Chapter11 Inheritance

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11.1 Introductiontoinheritance
Sep12

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11.2 BasicinheritanceinC++
Sep21

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11.3 Sep21
Orderofconstructionofderivedclasses
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11.4 Sep22
Constructorsandinitializationofderivedclasses

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11.5 Inheritanceandaccessspecifiers
Sep23

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11.6 Adding,changing,andhidingmembersinaderivedclass
Sep27

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11.7 Multipleinheritance
Oct10

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11.x 29
Chapter11comprehensivequiz

Chapter12 VirtualFunctions

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12.1 Nov2
Pointersandreferencestothebaseclassofderivedobjects

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12.2 Nov6
Virtualfunctionsandpolymorphism

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Theoverrideandfinalspecifiers,andcovariantreturntypes

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12.3 Nov11
Virtualdestructors,virtualassignment,andoverridingvirtualization

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12.4 Earlybindingandlatebinding
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12.5 Nov18
Thevirtualtable

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12.6 Nov19
Purevirtualfunctions,abstractbaseclasses,andinterfaceclasses

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Virtualbaseclasses

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Objectslicing

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12.9 Nov22
Dynamiccasting

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12.10 Printinginheritedclassesusingoperator<<
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12.x Chapter12comprehensivequiz
Nov23

Chapter13 Templates

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13.1 Nov26
Functiontemplates

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13.2 Nov26
Functiontemplateinstances

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13.3 Dec3
Templateclasses

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13.4 Dec3
Templateexpressionparameters

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13.5 Dec3
Functiontemplatespecialization

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13.6 Classtemplatespecialization
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13.7 Dec5
Partialtemplatespecialization
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Note:Werereorderingsomesectionssomeofthelessonnumberingmightbeoff/duplicativeinthemeantime.

Chapter14 Comingsoon

Chapter15 Exceptions

15.1 Theneedforexceptions
15.2 Basicexceptionhandling

15.3 Exceptions,functions,andstackunwinding

15.4 Uncaughtexceptions,catchallhandlers,andexceptionspecifiers

15.5 Exceptions,classes,andinheritance

15.6 Exceptiondangersanddownsides

Chapter16 TheStandardTemplateLibrary

16.1 TheStandardTemplateLibrary(STL)

16.2 STLcontainersoverview

16.3 STLiteratorsoverview

16.4 STLalgorithmsoverview

Chapter17 std::string

17.1 std::stringandstd::wstring

17.2 std::stringconstructionanddestruction

17.3 std::stringlengthandcapacity

17.4 std::stringcharacteraccessandconversiontoCstylearrays
17.5 std::stringassignmentandswapping

17.6 std::stringappending

17.7 std::stringinserting

Chapter18 Inputandoutput(I/O)

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Outputwithostreamandios

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Streamclassesforstrings

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Streamstatesandinputvalidation

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AppendixA MiscellaneousSubjects

A.1 Staticanddynamiclibraries

A.2 UsinglibrarieswithVisualStudioExpress2005
A.3 UsinglibrarieswithCode::Blocks

AppendixB C++11(FormerlyC++0x)

B.1 IntroductiontoC++11

B.2 Longlong,auto,decltype,nullptr,andenumclasses

B.3 Rangebasedforstatementsandstatic_assert
B.4 Initializerlistsanduniforminitialization

B.5 Delegatingconstructors

B.6 Newvirtualfunctioncontrols(override,final,default,anddelete)