Getting Started with C++

Chapter 1: Configuring Your Desktop System

• Obtaining a Copy of C++ 20
• Obtaining Code::Blocks
• Installing Code::Blocks
• Touring the Essential Code::Blocks Features
• Using Other IDEs

Chapter 2: Configuring Your Mobile System

• Obtaining CppDroid
• Considering Other Alternatives
• Touring the Essential CppDroid Features
• Obtaining CppDroid Help

Chapter 3: Creating Your First C++ Application

• Code::Blocks Creating a Project
• Typing the Code
• Starting with Main
• Showing Information
• Let Your Application Run Away

Chapter 4: Storing Data in C++

• Putting Your Data Places: Variables
• Manipulating Integer Variables
• Characters
• Strings
• Making Decisions Using Conditional Operators
• Telling the Truth with Boolean Variables
• Reading from the Console

Chapter 5: Directing the Application Flow

• Doing This or Doing That
• Evaluating Conditions in C++
• Including Evaluations in C++ Conditional Statements
• Repeating Actions with Statements That Loop
• Looping for
• Looping while
• Doing while
• Breaking and continuing
• Nesting loops

Chapter 6: Dividing Your Work with Functions

• Dividing Your Work
• Calling a Function
• Writing Your Own Functions
• Improving On the Basic Function
• Calling All String Functions
• Understanding main()

Chapter 7: Splitting Up Source Code Files

• Creating Multiple Source Files
• Sharing with Header Files
• Sharing Variables among Source Files
• Using the Mysterious Header Wrappers

Chapter 8: Referring to Your Data Through Pointers

• Understanding the Changes in Pointers for C++ 20
• Heaping and Stacking the Variables
• Creating New Raw Pointers
• Freeing Raw Pointers
• Working with Smart Pointers
• Passing Pointer Variables to Functions
• Returning Pointer Variables from Functions