The International Standard for C++ added many new libraries, keywords, and features to C++ -- Learn about them all in this completely revised and updated Third Edition of Herb Schildt's outstanding classic. In carefully organized chapters, you'll find expertly-crafted explanations, insider tips, and hundreds of examples that describe and demonstrate every aspect of C++. And just as you'd expect, everything is presented in the clear, uncompromising style that has made Herb the choice of millions.

Whether you are a newcomer just learning C++ or an experienced pro coming up to speed on the new International Standard, you'll find C++: The Complete Reference a lasting resource that will help you maximize your programming efforts. You'd expect nothing less from Herb Schildt, the world's leading programming author. Covering the entire C++ language, the book is organized into five parts: the C subset -- foundations of C++, C++, C++ Object Oriented features, the C++ Function Library, the C++ Class Library, and Applications.

You'll find these topics and more inside:

• Classes and objects
• Constructors and deconstructors
• Virtual functions and inheritance
• The modern forms of new and delete
• Function overloading
• Operator overloading
• Runtime type ID (RTTI)
• Namespaces
• Templates
• Exception handling
• The new casting operators
• The new I/O library
• The Standard Template Library (STL)
• Algorithms, iterators, and predicates
• The principles of Object Oriented Programming
  

Author Herb Schildt is the world's best-selling C++ author with more than 2 million books sold. The most complete coverage of the newly updated ANSI C++ Standard--including updated material on the STL, namespace naming methods, an new classes. An easy-to-follow, three-part organization: I) Description of the root of C++; II) Detailed coverage of C++'s OOP components and classes; III) Effective C++ software application development.