Chapters 24-26 and Appendices F-K are PDF documents posted online at the book's Companion Website, which is accessible from www.pearsonhighered.com/deitel Preface xxi 1 Introduction to Computers and C++ 1 1.1 Introduction 2 1.2 Computers and the Internet in Industry and Research 2 1.3 Hardware and Software 5 1.3.1 Moore's Law 6 1.3.2 Computer Organization 6 1.4 Data Hierarchy 7 1.5 Machine Languages, Assembly Languages and High-Level Languages 9 1.6 C++ 10 1.7 Programming Languages 11 1.8 Introduction to Object Technology 14 1.9 Typical C++ Development Environment 17 1.10 Test-Driving a C++ Application 19 1.11 Operating Systems 25 1.11.1 Windows-A Proprietary Operating System 25 1.11.2 Linux-An Open-Source Operating System 26 1.11.3 Apple's OS X; Apple's iOS for iPhone (R), iPad (R) and iPod Touch (R) Devices 26 1.11.4 Google's Android 27 1.12 The Internet and World Wide Web 27 1.13 Some Key Software Development Terminology 29 1.14 C++11 and the Open Source Boost Libraries 31 1.15 Keeping Up to Date with Information Technologies 32 1.16 Web Resources 33 2 Introduction to C++ Programming; Input/Output and Operators 38 2.1 Introduction 39 2.2 First Program in C++: Printing a Line of Text 39 2.3 Modifying Our First C++ Program 43 2.4 Another C++ Program: Adding Integers 44 2.5 Memory Concepts 48 2.6 Arithmetic 49 2.7 Decision Making: Equality and Relational Operators 53 2.8 Wrap-Up 57 3 Introduction to Classes, Objects and Strings 66 3.1 Introduction 67 3.2 Defining a Class with a Member Function 67 3.3 Defining a Member Function with a Parameter 70 3.4 Data Members, set Member Functions and get Member Functions 74 3.5 Initializing Objects with Constructors 79 3.6 Placing a Class in a Separate File for Reusability 83 3.7 Separating Interface from Implementation 87 3.8 Validating Data with set Functions 92 3.9 Wrap-Up 97 4 Control Statements: Part 1; Assignment, ++ and -- Operators 104 4.1 Introduction 105 4.2 Algorithms 105 4.3 Pseudocode 106 4.4 Control Structures 107 4.5 if Selection Statement 110 4.6 if...else Double-Selection Statement 112 4.7 while Repetition Statement 116 4.8 Formulating Algorithms: Counter-Controlled Repetition 118 4.9 Formulating Algorithms: Sentinel-Controlled Repetition 124 4.10 Formulating Algorithms: Nested Control Statements 134 4.11 Assignment Operators 139 4.12 Increment and Decrement Operators 140 4.13 Wrap-Up 143 5 Control Statements: Part 2; Logical Operators 157 5.1 Introduction 158 5.2 Essentials of Counter-Controlled Repetition 158 5.3 for Repetition Statement 159 5.4 Examples Using the for Statement 163 5.5 do...while Repetition Statement 168 5.6 switch Multiple-Selection Statement 169 5.7 break and continue Statements 178 5.8 Logical Operators 180 5.9 Confusing the Equality (==) and Assignment (=) Operators 185 5.10 Structured Programming Summary 186 5.11 Wrap-Up 191 6 Functions and an Introduction to Recursion 201 6.1 Introduction 202 6.2 Program Components in C++ 203 6.3 Math Library Functions 204 6.4 Function Definitions with Multiple Parameters 205 6.5 Function Prototypes and Argument Coercion 210 6.6 C++ Standard