C++ is a popular object-oriented programming (OOP) language for developing high-performance computer applications. This text explores the various key concepts of object-oriented programming such as encapsulation, abstraction, overloading, inheritance, polymorphism, virtual functions, templates and exception handling. Since C++ is an extension of standard version of C, a detailed treatment of C is also given to address the needs of the first-time programmers not acquainted with the features set of C. The book discusses in detail certain concepts that have remained grey for some time now. In this context, the notion of header files inclusion and its internals, and data structures that support features such as polymorphism are explained in detail. Equal emphasis is placed on syntaxes and the semantics behind the working of each feature of the language. Programming is not just syntaxes and the book attempts to present programming features in the right way by laying emphasis on concepts, internals, and illustrating such features by real-time programming examples as well. Programming is an art much like mathematics and is best appreciated and understood only if the conceptual side of the features is put forth as opposed to the conventional view of syntax emphasis.
This book will be useful for the students of :
All engineering disciplines
Computer Applications
Information Communication Technology (ICT)About the AuthorN.P. GOPALAN, Ph.D., is Professor, Department of Computer Applications, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirapalli. He has more than twenty-five years of teaching and research experience. He has over one hundred research papers to his credit in conferences and journals of repute. He is also the author of four other books: TCP/IP Illustrated (with B. Sivaselvan), Web Technology: A Developer’s Perspective (with J. Akilandeswari), A Beginner’s Guide to UNIX (with B. Sivaselvan) and Data Mining: Techniques and Trends (with B. Sivaselvan), all published by PHI Learning, New Delhi.
His research interests include distributed computing, knowledge engineering and information retrieval.|B. SIVASELVAN, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Kancheepuram, IIT Madras Campus, Chennai. Recipient of AICTE’s National Doctoral Fellowship (NDF) and Early Faculty Induction Programme (EFIP) Fellowship, Dr. Sivaselvan has over eight years of teaching and research experience. He has about eight publications to his credit in conferences and journals. He is the co-author of three other books with Professor N.P. Gopalan, all published by PHI Learning, New Delhi.
His areas of interest are data mining, formal methods, artificial intelligence and data structures.|C. MALA, Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirapalli. She has over twenty years of teaching and research experience. Dr. Mala has published around twenty research papers in national and international journals. Her areas of interest are computer and wireless networks, parallel programming and operating systems.
