C++ is a programming language that is very much in demand today, probably the language that is in most demand currently. This book contains basic C++ concepts, which will enable the user to write C++ code, to read it, to use C++ reference manuals, and to step into an entry-level C++ programming situation. Nevertheless this book does not cover templates, exception handling, the Standard Template Library (STL), RTTI, writing your own manipulators, binary trees, and object-oriented programming concepts. It makes up the basics, the language syntax, as well as language concepts illustrated by practical examples. To read this book, you do not need any significant C programming experience, but you do need to be familiar with the basics, such as, variables, data types, for loops, while loops, input and output, file I/O, pointers, array, string functions, and basic ANSI standard functions.

Rodrigue Sabin Mompelat has a Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences-Artificial Intelligence from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has occupied many teaching and research positions in Mathematics and Computer Science in French universities (University of Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle, University of Paris V René Descartes and University of Bourgogne/Cergy-Pontoise) and at Copenhagen Business School, the University of Aalborg and RISŲ National Laboratory  in Denmark. He has considerable experience and expertise in programming languages and software development. His current research fields are Artificial Intelligence and Neurocybernetics.

2008
276 pp., index
ISBN 978-0-87573-097-4
$50 - Softcover