本书是一本c++编程方面的优秀教程，全面介绍了过程式编程与面向对象编程的原理与方法，细致地分析了各种性能问题、可移植性问题及可能出错的情况。与第四版相比，本书从内容和结构上都做了较大幅度的修订与有意义的提升，特别是在“尽早接触类和对象”这一观点的指导下，从第1章就开始介绍类和对象的内容。突破了传统的教学模式，使学生直接“考虑对象”和深入掌握面向对象的基本概念。作者通过大量的示例程序，重点突出了利用UMI_．进行面向对象的设计，引入了使用CGI的Web应用开发，并且帮助学生创建真实世界的c++应用程序。本书无论从广度还是深度上来说都非常全面，并且从基础概念讲起，同样适合没有编程经验的读者学习。
本书可作为高等院校相关专业的编程语言教材和c++编程教材，也是软件设计人员进行C++程序开发的宝贵参考资料。

Chapter1 Introduction to computers,the Internet and World Wide Web
Chapter2 Introduction to C++Programming
Chapter3 Introduction to Classes and Objects
Chapter4 Control Statements:Part1
Chapter5 Control Statements:Part2
Chapter6 Functions and an Introduction to Recursion
Chapter7 Arrays and Vectors
Chapter8 Pointers and Pointer-Based Strings
Chapter9 Classes:A Deeper Look,Part1
Chapter10 Classes:A Deeper Look,Part2
Chapter11 Operayot Overloading; String and Array Objects
Chapter12 Object-Oriented Programming:Inheritance
Chapter13 Object-Oriented Programming:Polymorphism
Chapter14 Templates
Chapter15 Stream Input/Output
Chapter16 Exception Handling
Chapter17 File Processing
Chapter18 Class string and string stream processing
Chapter19 Web Programming
Chapter20 Searching and Sorting
Chapter21 Data structures
Chapter22 Bits,Characters,C-Strings and Structs
Chapter23 Standard Template Library(STL)
Chapter24 Other Topics
Appendix A Operator Precedence and Associativity Chart
Appendix B ASCII Character Set
Appendix C Fundamental Types
Appendix D Number Systems
Appendix E C Legacy Code Topics
Appendix F Preprocessor
Appendix G ATM Case study Code
Appendix H UML2:Additional Diagram Types
Appendix I C++Internet and Web Resources
Appendix J Introduction to XHTML
Appendix K XHTML Special Characters
Appendix L Using the Visual Studio.NET Debugger
Appendix M Using the GNUC++ Debugger
Bibliography
Index