Completely revised and enhanced with a lot of new material in today's Standard C + +, the new edition of Bruce Eckel's Thinking in C + +: Volume I is an excellent tutorial to master the language (and sometimes daunting) programming rich, full of advice experts and written in a patient, knowledgeable style. Effective presentation, along with dozens of helpful code examples, make this book stand out. The first text set the stage for using C + + with a tour of what object-oriented programming is all about, and the software design life cycle. The authors then delve into every aspect of C + +, from basic keywords and programming principles to more advanced topics, like function and operator overloading, virtual inheritance, exception handling, namespaces, and templates Dragan. - Richard Topics covered: Introduction to objects, inheritance, composition, polymorphism, exception handling, analysis and basic design, the advantages of C + +, the transition from C, compiling and building programs, writing C + + functions, flow control, C + + operator, data types, casting, debugging tips, pointers to functions, designing reusable C + + classes, conditional compilation and header files, access specifiers, constructors and destructors, function overloading and default arguments, using const and static effectively, inlining, namespaces , references to copy constructors, operator overloading, using new and delete to dynamic objects, virtual functions, abstract classes, introduction to templates, and iterators.