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cplusplus.com C++ Language Tutorial Written by: Juan Soulié Last revision: June, 2007 Available online at: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/ The online version is constantly revised and may contain corrections and changes The C++ Language Tutorial This document and its content is copyright of cplusplus.com © cplusplus.com, 2008 All rights reserved Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the content in any form is prohibited other than to print a personal copy of the entire document or download it to a local hard disk, without modifying its content in any way (including, but not limited to, this copyright notice) You may not, except with express written permission from cplusplus.com, distribute the content of this document Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system © cplusplus.com 2008 All rights reserved The C++ Language Tutorial Table of contents Table of contents .3 Introduction Instructions for use Basics of C++ Structure of a program Variables Data Types 11 Constants 17 Operators 21 Basic Input/Output 29 Control Structures 34 Control Structures 34 Functions (I) 41 Functions (II) 47 Compound data types 54 Arrays 54 Character Sequences 60 Pointers 63 Dynamic Memory 74 Data structures 77 Other Data Types 82 Object Oriented Programming 86 Classes (I) 86 Classes (II) 95 Friendship and inheritance 100 Polymorphism 107 Advanced concepts 113 Templates 113 Namespaces 120 Exceptions 123 Type Casting 127 © cplusplus.com 2008 All rights reserved The C++ Language Tutorial Preprocessor directives 133 C++ Standard Library 138 Input/Output with files 138 © cplusplus.com 2008 All rights reserved The C++ Language Tutorial Introduction Instructions for use To whom is this tutorial directed? This tutorial is for those people who want to learn programming in C++ and not necessarily have any previous knowledge of other programming languages Of course any knowledge of other programming languages or any general computer skill can be useful to better understand this tutorial, although it is not essential It is also suitable for those who need a little update on the new features the language has acquired from the latest standards If you are familiar with the C language, you can take the first parts of this tutorial as a review of concepts, since they mainly explain the C part of C++ There are slight differences in the C++ syntax for some C features, so I recommend you its reading anyway The 4th part describes object-oriented programming The 5th part mostly describes the new features introduced by ANSI-C++ standard Structure of this tutorial The tutorial is divided in parts and each part is divided on its turn into different sections covering a topic each one You can access any section directly from the section index available on the left side bar, or begin the tutorial from any point and follow the links at the bottom of each section Many sections include examples that describe the use of the newly acquired knowledge in the chapter It is recommended to read these examples and to be able to understand each of the code lines that constitute it before passing to the next chapter A good way to gain experience with a programming language is by modifying and adding new functionalities on your own to the example programs that you fully understand Don't be scared to modify the examples provided with this tutorial, that's the way to learn! Compatibility Notes The ANSI-C++ standard acceptation as an international standard is relatively recent It was first published in November 1997, and revised in 2003 Nevertheless, the C++ language exists from a long time before (1980s) Therefore there are many compilers which not support all the new capabilities included in ANSI-C++, especially those released prior to the publication of the standard This tutorial is thought to be followed with modern compilers that support -at least on some degree- ANSI-C++ specifications I encourage you to get one if yours is not adapted There are many options, both commercial and free Compilers The examples included in this tutorial are all console programs That means they use text to communicate with the user and to show their results © cplusplus.com 2008 All rights reserved The C++ Language Tutorial All C++ compilers support the compilation of console programs Check the user's manual of your compiler for more info on how to compile them © cplusplus.com 2008 All rights reserved The C++ Language Tutorial Basics of C++ Structure of a program Probably the best way to start learning a programming language is by writing a program Therefore, here is our first program: // my first program in C++ Hello World! #include using namespace std; int main () { cout