An Introduction to Programming through C++

This book gives an introduction to C++ and computer programming to first year engineering and science students. It is expected to be used along with Simplecpp, a graphics package available on the book website.

Salient Features:

• Use of a graphics package, Simplecpp, to pictorially explain programming ideas.
• Extensive discussion of recursion in the context of sorting, tree based computations, backtracking.
• Substantial coverage of proving correctness of programs including notions such as invariants, pre and post conditions.

Table of Content:

• Introduction
• A Bird's Eye View
• Variables and Data Types
• A Program-design Example
• Simplecpp Graphics
• Conditional Execution
• Loops
• Computing Common Mathematical Functions
• Functions
• Recursive Functions
• Program Organization and Functions
• Functions: Advanced Topics
• Practice of Programming: Some Tips and Tools
• Arrays
• More on Arrays
• Arrays and Recursion
• Object-oriented Programming: Structures
• Object-oriented Programming: Classes
• A Project: Cosmological Simulation
• Graphics Events and Frames
• Representing Variable-Length Entities
• The Standard Library
• Representing Networks of Entities
• Structural Recursion
• Inheritance
• Inheritance-based Design
• Discrete-event Simulation
• Simulation of an Airport
• Systems of Non-Linear Equations