References

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The lecture notes posted on this website will be a complete but terse presentation of the material covered in the course. You are encouraged to make use of additional reference material to explain any material you find confusing in more depth.

Textbooks

The following books are optional (recommended but not required). The course will follow primarily the order of Ford and Topp. Some of the lectures are based on material in Koenig and Moo. Students are encouraged to have available a C++ reference book, such as those by Malik or Stroustrup, and/or use on-line reference material.

• Data Structures with C++ Using STL, 2nd edition
  Ford and Topp, Prentice Hall

• Accelerated C++
  Koenig and Moo, Addison-Wesley

• C++ Programming
  D.S. Malik, Thomson Learning

• The C++ Programming Language, 4th edition
  Bjarne Stroustrup, Addison-Wesley

Web Resources

Here are several websites you should find helpful. Feel free to search for and share other web resources.

• http://www.cplusplus.com/
  

• http://www.fredosaurus.com/notes-cpp/index.html

 

See the Helpful C++ Programming Notes page for information on C++ command line arguments, file I/O, and redirecting standard input & output to files.