Discover the philosophy of object-oriented programming through C++ with this unique guide.

- Does not require programming knowledge
- Suitable for both beginners and experienced programmers
- Includes characteristic examples, explanatory comments, and exercises
- Includes a free CD-ROM.

The book covers, among other things:
- Data types, representations, control statements, and loops
- Functions
- Pointers and arrays
- Classes and objects
- Overloading operators and functions
- Inheritance - derived and base classes
- Input/output streams - file handling
- Recursion and recursive functions
- Search and sorting algorithms
- Dynamic memory management
- Extensive reference to dynamic data structures - linked lists, binary trees, and their implementation in the C++ language
- Class and function templates
- Exceptions and error handling
- Namespaces.

The accompanying CD contains the integrated development environment DEV C++, the code for most of the programs presented in the book, as well as the answers to all exercises.