An Animated Introduction to Programming in C++

by Mark Mahoney

Introduction

This is an introductory book on programming in C++. It assumes no previous programming experience.

1. Flow and Data

1.1 Storyteller Tutorial Like

1.2 Printing and flow of control Like

1.3 Declaring variables in memory Like

1.4 Basic types in C++ Like

1.5 Numeric data types and weirdness associated with them Like

1.6 Characters and strings Like

1.7 Input from the keyboard Like

1.8 Rework of the distance formula with user input Like

1.9 Gas mileage Like

2. Selection

2.1 bool data types Like

2.2 Selection with if/else Like

2.3 Another if/else Like

2.4 Logical operators, nested ifs, and if/else if Like

2.5 The switch statement Like

3. Looping

3.1 A simple loop Like

3.2 A less simple loop Like

3.3 Summing in a loop Like

3.4 Nested loop Like

3.5 for loop Like

3.6 Capitalizing a sentence with a for Like

3.7 break and continue Like

4. Arrays

4.1 A simple array Like

4.2 Average and standard deviation with an array Like

4.3 Some problems with plain old arrays Like

4.4 Two dimensional arrays Like

4.5 More than two dimensional arrays Like

5. Functions

5.1 Simple functions Like

5.2 Value returning/void functions Like

5.3 Passing parameters by value Like

5.4 Passing parameters by reference Like

5.5 The scope of local variables and parameters Like

5.6 isPrime function Like

5.7 Passing arrays as parameters Like

6. Vectors

6.1 Simple vector Like

6.2 Passing a vector to a function Like

6.3 Advanced methods of a vector Like

6.4 Read from a file and store in a vector Like

6.5 Linear search and binary search Like

6.6 Sorting values in a vector Like

6.7 Writing values from a vector to a file Like

6.8 Two dimensional vectors Like

7. Structured Data

7.1 Simple structs Like

7.2 Hierarchical structs Like

7.3 Vectors as members of structs Like

7.4 Vectors of objects with structs Like

7.5 Integral calculus with structs Like

8. Pointers and Dynamic Memory

8.1 Simple pointers Like

8.2 Pointers to objects Like

8.3 Vectors of pointers Like

8.4 Arrays are pointers Like

8.5 Passing data to functions with pointers Like

8.6 Comparing pointers Like

8.7 Different memory types Like

8.8 Dynamic memory example Like

8.9 Dangling pointers and null pointers Like

8.10 Dynamic array of students Like

8.11 Function Pointers Like

9. Classes

9.1 Simple class Like

9.2 Class with data and methods Like

9.3 Classes with objects as members Like

9.4 Common word analyzer Like

9.5 Classes with pointers to objects on the heap Like

9.6 Inheritance and polymorphism Like

9.7 Shape Inheritance Hierarchy Like

9.8 Student and Foreign Exchange Student Inheritance Hierarchy Like