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