Through C To C++: A Complete Programming Course

Assuming no prior knowledge of programming, this book has been written for use in the ACM-recommended curriculum for CS1 and is aimed at a broad audience of students in science, engineering and business. Chapters 1-7 provide a gradual introduction to the fundamentals of programming where much emphasis is placed upon good practice involving program design and the implementation of structured programs. Chapters 8-14 introduce data structures. Chapters 16-18 extend the student's knowledge of ANSI C by introducing extensions to the language using C++. In addition to an exposition of C and C++, the text contains a comprehensive appraisal of many topics found in data structures arrays, records, recursion, linked-lists, queues, stacks, and binary trees; in data processing sorting, searching, merging, report writing and data validation; and in programming structured programming, modularity, data abstraction and object-oriented programming.