C++ Textbook

Note

The recommended text for the class is Introduction to Programming with C++ for Engineers by Boguslaw Cyganek.

• The companion website is here: https://home.agh.edu.pl/~cyganek/BookCpp.htm

• The code examples are all available on github: https://github.com/BogCyg/BookCpp

The author suggests that this text can be used for 3 semesters of C++, so we will likely only get through 1/3rd of it. But that will cover the major features, with the remaining chapters diving deeper into details.

Tip

We will follow the order that material is presented in the text relatively closely, but our examples will differ in many places.

I will note the reading for each section on our course pages, and present a summary of the core ideas, but I will not repeat all the content that is in the text. Alternate readings from the web will be provided for most of the topics.

Our focus will be to look at examples in class to learn how to apply the ideas.

Important

C++ is evolving. New standards are released every 3 years, so some examples you find online might be “old” compared to the new language features C++ now offers.

We will use C++17 as our baseline.