Starting Out with C++ from Control Structures to Objects, 8th Edition

Tony Gaddis, Haywood Community College



This text is intended for either a one-semester accelerated introductory course or a traditional two-semester sequence covering C++ programming.

Tony Gaddis’s accessible, step-by-step presentation helps beginning students understand the important details necessary to become skilled programmers at an introductory level. Gaddis motivates the study of both programming skills and the C++ programming language by presenting all the details needed to understand the “how” and the “why”–but never losing sight of the fact that most beginners struggle with this material. His approach is both gradual and highly accessible, ensuring that students understand the logic behind developing high-quality programs.

In Starting Out with C++: From Control Structures through Objects, Gaddis covers control structures, functions, arrays, and pointers before objects and classes. As with all Gaddis texts, clear and easy-to-read code listings, concise and practical real-world examples, and an abundance of exercises appear in every chapter.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Computers and Programming 1
CHAPTER 2 Introduction to C++ 27
CHAPTER 3 Expressions and Interactivity 85
CHAPTER 4 Making Decisions 149
CHAPTER 5 Loops and Files 227
CHAPTER 6 Functions 301
CHAPTER 7 Arrays 377
CHAPTER 8 Searching and Sorting Arrays 451
CHAPTER 9 Pointers 491
CHAPTER 10 Characters, C-Strings, and More About the String Class 541
CHAPTER 11 Structured Data 593
CHAPTER 12 Advanced File Operations 651
CHAPTER 13 Introduction to Classes 705
CHAPTER 14 More About Classes 799
CHAPTER 15 Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Virtual Functions 869
CHAPTER 16 Exceptions, Templates, and the Standard Template Library (STL) 947
CHAPTER 17 Linked Lists 1003
CHAPTER 18 Stacks and Queues 1043
CHAPTER 19 Recursion 1101
CHAPTER 20 Binary Trees 1137
Appendix A: Getting Started with Alice 1167
Appendix B: The ASCII Character Set 1195
Appendix C: Operator Precedence and Associativity 1197
Quick References 1199
Index 1201