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Table of contents
Table of contents ...............................................................................................................................3
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................5
Instructions for use ................................................................................................................................... 5
Basics of C++ ......................................................................................................................................7
Structure of a program ............................................................................................................................. 7
Variables. Data Types. ............................................................................................................................. 11
Constants ................................................................................................................................................ 17
Operators ................................................................................................................................................ 21
Basic Input/Output .................................................................................................................................. 29
Control Structures ............................................................................................................................ 34
Control Structures ................................................................................................................................... 34
Functions (I) ............................................................................................................................................ 41
Functions (II) ........................................................................................................................................... 47
Compound data types ...................................................................................................................... 54
Arrays ...................................................................................................................................................... 54
Character Sequences .............................................................................................................................. 60
Pointers ................................................................................................................................................... 63
Dynamic Memory .................................................................................................................................... 74
Data structures........................................................................................................................................ 77
Other Data Types .................................................................................................................................... 82
Object Oriented Programming .......................................................................................................... 86
Classes (I)................................................................................................................................................. 86
Classes (II) ............................................................................................................................................... 95
Friendship and inheritance ................................................................................................................... 100
Polymorphism ....................................................................................................................................... 107
Advanced concepts ........................................................................................................................ 113
Templates.............................................................................................................................................. 113
Namespaces .......................................................................................................................................... 120
Exceptions ............................................................................................................................................. 123
Type Casting .......................................................................................................................................... 127
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Preprocessor directives ......................................................................................................................... 133
C++ Standard Library ...................................................................................................................... 138
Input/Output with files ......................................................................................................................... 138
