Herb Schildt, the world's leading programming author, has updated and expanded his best-selling C++ from the Ground Up to include all of C++'s newest features. In this fast-paced new edition, Schildt fully explains the entire C++ language, from its fundamentals to its most advanced topics.

Written in the clear, uncompromising style that has made Schildt's programming books the choice of millions worldwide, C++ from the Ground Up, starts with the basics, including an overview of C++ and the general form of a C++ program. You'll then progress to the fundamentals of C++ programming, including control statements, operators, variables, expressions, and data types. Next, you will learn about object oriented programming using classes and objects. By the time you finish, you will have learned about some of C++'s newest and most advanced features, such as the Standard Template Library (STL), namespaces, runtime type ID, and much more.

You will learn about:

* The general form of a C++ program
* Data types operators and expressions
* Control statements
* Functions
* Pointers and References
* Classes and Objects
* Function and operator overloading
* Constructor and deconstructors
* Templates
* Inheritance
* Virtual functions
* The C++ I/O system
* Namespaces
* The Standard Template Library
* Object oriented programming principles