An Animated Introduction to Programming with C++

by Mark Mahoney

Part 1- Flow and Data

  1. How to read this book* Start Here!
  2. Printing and flow of control
  3. Declaring variables in memory
  4. Basic types in C++
  5. Numeric data types and weirdness associated with them
  6. Characters and strings
  7. Input from the keyboard
  8. Rework of the distance formula with user input
  9. Gas mileage

Part 2- Selection

  1. bool data type
  2. Selection with if/else
  3. Another if/else
  4. Logical operators, nested ifs, and if/else if
  5. The switch statement

Part 3- Looping

  1. A simple loop
  2. A less simple loop
  3. Summing in a loop
  4. Nested loops
  5. for loop
  6. Capitalizing a sentence with a for
  7. break and continue

Part 4- Arrays

  1. A simple array
  2. Average and standard deviation with an array
  3. Some problems with plain old arrays
  4. Two dimensional arrays
  5. More than two dimensional arrays

Part 5- Functions

  1. Simple functions
  2. Value returning/void functions
  3. Passing parameters by value
  4. Passing parameters by reference
  5. The scope of local variables and parameters
  6. isPrime function
  7. Passing arrays as parameters

Part 6- Vectors

  1. Simple vector
  2. Passing a vector to a function
  3. Advanced methods of a vector
  4. Read from a file and store in a vector
  5. Linear search and binary search
  6. Sorting values in a vector
  7. Writing values from a vector to a file
  8. Two dimensional vectors

Part 7- Structured Data

  1. Simple structs
  2. Hierarchical structs
  3. vectors with structs
  4. vectors of objects with structs
  5. Integral calculus with structs

Part 8- Pointers and Dynamic Memory

  1. Pointers
  2. Pointers to objects
  3. Vectors of pointers
  4. Arrays are pointers
  5. Pointers as parameters
  6. Comparing pointers
  7. Different memory types
  8. Dynamic memory example
  9. Dangling pointers and null
  10. Dynamic array of students

Part 9- Classes

  1. Simple class
  2. Class with data and methods
  3. Classes with objects as members
  4. Common word analyzer
  5. Classes with pointers to objects on the heap
  6. Inheritance and polymorphism
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