“The chief merit of language is clearness ...” —Galen
Welcome to the C++ computer programming language and C++ How to Program, Ninth Edition.
This book presents leading-edge computing technologies. It’s appropriate for introductory course sequences based on the curriculum recommendations of two key professional organizations—the ACM and the IEEE.
If you haven’t already done so, please read the back cover and inside back cover—these capture the essence of the book concisely. In this Preface we provide more detail for students, instructors and professionals.
At the heart of the book is the Diestel signature live-code approach—we present concepts in the context of complete working programs followed by sample executions, rather than in code snippets.
Read the online Before You Begin section (www.deitel.com/ books/cpphtp9/cpphtp9_BYB.pdf) to learn how to set up your Linux-based, Windows-based or Apple OS X-based computer to run the hundreds of code examples. All the source code is available at www.deitel.com/books/cpphtp9 and www.pearsonhighered.com/ deitel.
Use the source code we provide to run each program as you study it.
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