Focus on object-oriented programming Early-objects approach. Accessible to even the most novice programmer, the book introduces the basic concepts and terminology of object technology in Chapter 1 and then asks readers to develop their first customised classes and objects in Chapter 3. Presenting objects and classes early gets readers thinking about objects immediately so they can master these concepts more thoroughly. C++ Standard Library String. C++ offers two types of strings–string class objects (which are used beginning in Chapter 3) and C strings. Most occurrences of C strings are replaced with instances of C++ class string to make programs more robust and eliminate many of the security problems of C strings. C strings are discussed later in the book to prepare readers for working with the legacy code that they will encounter in industry. C++ Standard Library array. C++ offers three types of arrays–arrays and vectors (which are used beginning in Chapter 7) and C-style, pointer-based arrays which are discussed in Chapter 8. The primary treatment of arrays uses the Standard Library’s array and vector class templates instead of built-in, C-style, pointerbased arrays. Built-in arrays are also covered because they remain useful in C++ and and will enable students to read legacy code. Crafting valuable classes. To prepare readers to build valuable reusable classes, Chapter 10 begins with a test-drive of class template string–allowing students to see an elegant use of operator overloading before they implement their own customised class with overloaded operators. In the Chapter 10 case study, students will build their own custom Array class, then in the Chapter 18 exercises they will convert it to a class template. Case studies in object-oriented programming. Several well-engineered, real-world case studies are presented, including the Account class in Chapter 3, Student class in Chapter 4, DollarAmount class in Chapter 5, GradeBook class in Chapter 7, the Time class in Chapter 9, the Employee class in Chapters 11—12, and more. Optional case study: Using the UML to develop an object-oriented design and C++ implementation of an ATM. UMLTM (Unified Modeling LanguageTM) is introduced in the early chapters. Online Chapters 25 and 26 include an optional object-oriented design case study using the UML. To help them “tie it all together” and truly understand object orientation, students will learn to: design and fully implement the software for a simple automated teller machine (ATM); analyse a typical requirements document that specifies the system to be built; determine the classes needed to implement that system, the attributes the classes need to have, the behaviors the classes need to exhibit and how objects of the classes must interact with one another to meet the system requirements; produce a complete C++ implementation from the design. Understanding how polymorphism works. Chapter 12 contains a detailed diagram and explanation of how C++ typically implements polymorphism, virtual functions and dynamic binding “under the hood.” Object-oriented exception handling. Basic exception handling is integrated early in the book in Chapter 7. Instructors can easily pull more detailed material from Chapter 17, Exception Handling: A Deeper Look. Custom template-based data structures. A rich multi-chapter treatment of data structures is provided–see the Data Structures module in the chapter dependency chart to plan your instruction. Three programming paradigms. Structured programming, object-oriented programming, and