Problem Solving With C++ (9th Edition)

Description

For the C++ introductory programming course, problem solving with C++ continues to be the most widely used textbook by students and instructors in the introduction to programming and C++ language course. Through each edition, hundreds and thousands of students have valued Walt Savitch’s approach to programming, which emphasizes active reading through the use of well-placed examples and self-test examples. Created for the beginner, this book focuses on cultivating strong problem-solving and programming techniques while introducing students to the C++ programming language.

Key Features

• This edition has been updated with a new introduction to C++11 in the context of C++98. Examples of C++11 content include new integer types, the auto type, raw string literals, strong enumerations, null pointer, range for loop, conversion between strings and integers, member initializers and constructor delegation.
• Additional material on sorting, secure programming (e.g. Overflow, array out of bounds) and inheritance is included in this edition.
• Twenty-one new practice programs and ten new programming projects are included in this edition.

Table of Contents

1. Chapter 1 Introduction to Computers and C++ Programming
2. Chapter 2 C++ Basics
3. Chapter 3 more flow of control
4. Chapter 4 Procedural abstraction and functions that return a value
5. Chapter 5 Functions for all subtasks
6. Chapter 6 I/O Streams as an introduction to objects and classes
7. Chapter 7 Arrays
8. Chapter 8 Strings and vectors
9. Chapter 9 Pointers and dynamic arrays
10. Chapter 10 Defining classes
11. Chapter 11 Friends, overloaded operators and arrays in classes
12. Chapter 12 Separate compilation and namespaces
13. Chapter 13 Pointers and linked lists
14. Chapter 14 Recursion
15. Chapter 15 Inheritance
16. Chapter 16 Exception handling
17. Chapter 17 Templates
18. Chapter 18 Standard template library
19. Appendices
    1. C++ Keywords
    2. Precedence of operators
    3. The ASCII character set
    4. Some library functions
    5. Inline functions
    6. Overloading the array index square brackets
    7. The this pointer
    8. Overloading operators as member operators
20. Index.

Author Description

Walter John Savitch (born February 21, 1943) is best known for discovering the complexity class NL (nondeterministic logarithmic space), and for Savitch’s theorem, which defines a relationship between the NSPACE and DSPACE complexity classes. His work in establishing complexity classes has helped to create the background against which non-deterministic and probabilistic reasoning can be performed.

He has also done extensive work in the field of natural language processing and mathematical linguistics. He has been focused on computational computing as it applies to genetics and biology for over 10 years.

Aside from his work in theoretical computer science, Savitch has written a number of textbooks for learning to program in C/C++, Java, Ada, Pascal and others.

Savitch received his PhD in mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1969 under the supervision of Stephen Cook. Since then he has been a professor at UCSD where he is currently a professor emeritus in the computer science department.