References

The lecture notes posted on this website will be a complete but terse presentation of the material covered in the course. You are encouraged to make use of additional reference material to explain any material you find confusing in more depth.

Textbooks

The following books are optional (recommended but not required). The course will follow primarily the order of Ford and Topp. Some of the lectures are based on material in Koenig and Moo. Students are encouraged to have available a C++ reference book, such as those by Malik or Stroustrup, and/or use on-line reference material.

• Data Structures with C++ Using STL, 2nd edition
  Ford and Topp, Prentice Hall

• Accelerated C++
  Koenig and Moo, Addison-Wesley

• C++ Programming
  D.S. Malik, Thomson Learning

• The C++ Programming Language, 3rd edition
  Bjarne Stroustrup, Addison-Wesley

Web Resources

Here are several websites you should find helpful. Feel free to search for and share other web resources.

• http://www.cplusplus.com/
  

• http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/
  The STL (standard template library) programmer's guide at SGI is a good resource for questions about vectors, lists, maps, etc.

• http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/
  This is an organized summary of the most important FAQ's that have appeared on the C++ newsgroups. Both beginning and advanced students can benefit from it.

• http://www.fredosaurus.com/notes-cpp/index.html

• Thinking in C++, by Bruce Eckel

See the C++ Development Environments page for more information on compiling with g++/gcc.

See the Misc C++Programming Info page for information on C++ command line arguments, file I/O, and redirecting standard input & output to files.

See the Memory Debugging page to learn about tools for finding errors in memory usage including segmentation faults, buffer overflows, uninitialized memory, and memory leaks.