Reference Material

Books

As I said above, any C++ textbook will do. In particular, the following is a very good one (in fact the only reason I did not choose it as the text for the course is its unavailability in a large enough quantity):

• Steve Oualline, Practical C++ Programming, O'Reilly & Associates, 1995. ISBN 1-56592-139-9.

Also a good text (available on-line) is

• Bruce Eckel, Thinking in C++, second edition, Prentice Hall Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2000. ISBN 0-13-979809-9.

  Volume 2 (MindView Inc., 2004) is also of interest to the course.

The following are available in the library:

• R. Lafore, Object-oriented programming in C++, fourth edition, Sams, 2002. Call number QA 76.64 .L32 2002. A somehow weaker C++ text.

• R. Lafore, The Waite Group's object-oriented programming in C++, third edition, Sams, 1999. Call number QA 76.64 .L32 1999. Ditto.

• B. Stroustrup, The C++ programming language, special edition, Addison-Wesley, 2000. Call number: QA 76.73 .C153 S77 2000. (The 1997 edition also available and also on reserve, with call number QA 76.73 .C153 S77). A reference rather than a textbook.

• M. A. Ellis and B. Stroustrup, The annotated C++ reference manual, Addison-Wesley, 1990. Call number: QA 76.73 .C153 E35 1990. Yet another C++ reference.

The following text was optional in the past years, but as far as I know nobody bothered to check it out. So that I am no longer specifying it as course material (and unfortunately the library does not carry it; you are however welcome to borrow my copy to take a look at it should you be interested):

• Mark Allen Weiss, Data Structures and Problem Solving in C++, second edition, Addison-Welsey, 2000. ISBN 0-201-61250-X.

On-Line Material

C++

There is a huge amount on information on the Web about C++ programming (and programming in general). Here are some of these documents:

• Thinking in C++, second edition by Bruce Eckel (good, and free C++ textbook).
• A C/C++ reference.
• Crashproof C++.
• Just say no to memory leaks.
• C++ library reference.
• On pointers, recursion, and more: The Perils of JavaSchools

G++, the GNU C++ compiler

• GCC online documentation.

Makefiles

• Makefile tutorial
• Make--a tutorial.
• The GNU make manual.

Note that the makefiles presented in class are good for GCC. In Windows, the name of the compiler should be changed, as well as the compiler options (in particular, options are introduced in Windows by / instead of -). In addition, the make command supplied with Microsoft Visual C++ appears to be actually called nmake. Consult the documentation that comes with your system for details.