From the Publisher
This friendly step-by-step tutorial gently walks beginners through the basics of object-oriented programming, while covering all the essential elements of C++. - Teaches how to use classes, inheritance, and polymorphism to build programs that are flexible, easily modified and maintained- Written for ANSI C++, the language standard compatible with all versions of C++- Covers important OOP concepts including templates, exceptions, Runtime type information (RTTI), and namespaces