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vi Teach Yourself C++Builder in 14 Days
Contents
Introduction xii
Week 1 at a Glance 1
Day 1 Getting Your Feet Wet 3
What Is C++Builder? .................................................................................. 4
A Quick Look at the C++Builder IDE ........................................................ 4
Hello World ............................................................................................... 6
Hello World, Part II—A Win32 Console Application ................................ 8
C++ Language Overview........................................................................... 14
Summary .................................................................................................. 35
Workshop................................................................................................. 36
Day 2 Wading In Deeper 39
If… .......................................................................................................... 40
Thrown for a Loop ................................................................................... 44
The switch Statement ............................................................................. 51
Learning About Scope .............................................................................. 53
Structures ................................................................................................. 56
Summary .................................................................................................. 64
Workshop................................................................................................. 65
Day 3 Up to Your Neck in C++ 67
Pointers: Welcome to My Nightmare ....................................................... 68
References ................................................................................................ 76
Passing Function Parameters by Reference and by Pointer ........................ 79
The new and delete Operators ................................................................ 81
Functions in C++ ..................................................................................... 86
Summary .................................................................................................. 92
Workshop................................................................................................. 92
Day 4 Totally Immersed: C++ Classes and
Object-Oriented Programming 95
So, uh…What’s a Class? ........................................................................... 96
Anatomy of a Class ................................................................................... 97
Inheritance ............................................................................................. 116
Basic File I/O ......................................................................................... 122
Summary ................................................................................................ 128
Workshop............................................................................................... 129
Day 5 C++ Class Frameworks and the Visual Component Model 131
Frameworks 101 ..................................................................................... 132
The C++ Framework Wars ..................................................................... 136
The Visual Component Library: The New Kid on the Block .................. 139
C++Builder and VCL ............................................................................. 153