This comprehensive text is aimed at readers with little or no programming experience. Highly practical in approach, it introduces fundamental notions of structured programming and software engineering and gets up to speed quickly. The book covers not only the full C language, but includes a review of library functions and a solid introduction to C++, Java, and object-oriented programming.

2: Introduction to C Programming

3: Structured Program Development in C

4: C Program Control

5: C Functions

6: C Arrays

7: C Pointers

8: C Characters and Strings

9: C Formatted Input/Output

10: C Structures, Unions, Bit Manipulations, and Enumerations

11: C File Processing

12: C Data Structures

13: C Preprocessor

14: Advanced C Topics

15: C++ as a "Better C

" 16: C++ Classes and Data Abstraction

17: C++ Classes: Part II

18: C++ Operator Overloading

19: C++ Inheritance

20: C++ Virtual Functions and Polymorphism

21: C++ Stream Input/Output

22: C++ Templates

23: C++ Exception Handling

24: Introduction to Java Applications and Applets

25: Beyond C & C++: Operators, Methods & Arrays in Java

26: Java Object-Based Programming

27: Java Object-Oriented Programming

28: Java Graphics and Java 2D

29: Java Graphical User Interface Components

30: Java Multimedia: Images, Animation and Audio

A: Internet and Web Resources

B: C99 Internet and Web Resources

C: Operator Precedence Chart

D: ASCII Character Set

E: Number Systems

Index