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The C++ Workshop

By : Dale Green, Kurt Guntheroth, Shaun Ross Mitchell
Book Image

The C++ Workshop

By: Dale Green, Kurt Guntheroth, Shaun Ross Mitchell

Overview of this book

C++ is the backbone of many games, GUI-based applications, and operating systems. Learning C++ effectively is more than a matter of simply reading through theory, as the real challenge is understanding the fundamentals in depth and being able to use them in the real world. If you're looking to learn C++ programming efficiently, this Workshop is a comprehensive guide that covers all the core features of C++ and how to apply them. It will help you take the next big step toward writing efficient, reliable C++ programs. The C++ Workshop begins by explaining the basic structure of a C++ application, showing you how to write and run your first program to understand data types, operators, variables and the flow of control structures. You'll also see how to make smarter decisions when it comes to using storage space by declaring dynamic variables during program runtime. Moving ahead, you'll use object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques such as inheritance, polymorphism, and class hierarchies to make your code structure organized and efficient. Finally, you'll use the C++ standard library?s built-in functions and templates to speed up different programming tasks. By the end of this C++ book, you will have the knowledge and skills to confidently tackle your own ambitious projects and advance your career as a C++ developer.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we've taken a closer look at the operators provided by C++ and how we can use them to interact with our data. They were presented in groups—the first of which was arithmetic operators. These allow us to perform mathematical operations on our values (such as adding two numbers), or in the case of the activity we just completed, using modulus to determine whether one number is a multiple of another. We then moved on to looking at relational operators. These allow us to compare values with one another, such as determining whether two objects are equal, or whether one number is larger than another.

We then moved on to unary operators. These are operators that operate on a single operand, such as incrementing a value or negating a Boolean value. This led to looking at the assignment and logical operators. We explored how we can combine the simple assignment operator with arithmetic operators to more concisely multiply our values, and how we can evaluate...