Table of content
- Main Page
- Main Page
- Table of content
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: Preliminaries
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- FAQ 1.01 What is the purpose of this chapter?
- FAQ 1.02 What are C FAQs?
- FAQ 1.03 Who is the target audience for this book?
- FAQ 1.04 Is this a book about C per se?
- FAQ 1.05 Why do developers need a guidebook for C and OO technology?
- FAQ 1.06 What kind of guidance is given in the answers to these FAQs?
- FAQ 1.07 What is the electronic FAQ and why buy this book when the electronic FAQ is free?
- FAQ 1.08 Why should you buy this edition if you already have a copy of the first edition?
- FAQ 1.09 What conventions are used in this book?
- Chapter 2. Basic C Syntax and Semantics
- FAQ 2.01 What is the purpose of this chapter?
- FAQ 2.02 What are the basics of main() ?
- FAQ 2.03 What are the basics of functions?
- FAQ 2.04 What are the basics of default parameters?
- FAQ 2.05 What are the basics of local (auto) objects?
- FAQ 2.06 What are the basics of constructing objects using explicit parameters?
- FAQ 2.07 What are the basics of dynamically allocated (new) objects?
- FAQ 2.08 What are the basics of local objects within inner scopes?
- FAQ 2.09 What are the basics of passing objects by reference?
- FAQ 2.10 What are the basics of passing objects by value?
- FAQ 2.11 What are the basics of passing objects by pointer?
- FAQ 2.12 What are the basics of stream output?
- FAQ 2.13 What are the basics of stream input?
- FAQ 2.14 What are the basics of using classes that contain overloaded operators?
- FAQ 2.15 What are the basics of using container classes?
- FAQ 2.16 What are the basics of creating class header files?
- FAQ 2.17 What are the basics of defining a class?
- FAQ 2.18 What are the basics of defining member functions?
- FAQ 2.19 What are the basics of adding a constructor to a class?
- FAQ 2.20 What are the basics of adding a destructor to a class?
- FAQ 2.21 What are the basics of defining a class that contains a pointer to an object allocated from the heap?
- FAQ 2.22 What are the basics of global objects?
- FAQ 2.23 What are the basics of throwing and catching exceptions?
- FAQ 2.24 What are the basics of inheritance and dynamic binding?
- Chapter 3. Understanding the Management Perspective
- FAQ 3.01 What is the purpose of this chapter?
- FAQ 3.02 What is the core message of this chapter (and this book)?
- FAQ 3.03 Why are the managers in charge rather than the developers who understand technology?
- FAQ 3.04 How can someone manage something they don t understand?
- FAQ 3.05 What is the most common mistake on C and OO projects?
- FAQ 3.06 What s the Software Peter Principle ?
- FAQ 3.07 Should an organization use OO on all its projects?
- FAQ 3.08 Can OO be ignored until it goes away?
- FAQ 3.09 What OO language is best?
- FAQ 3.10 What is the right approach to processes and tools?
- FAQ 3.11 What is the right approach with off-the-shelf class libraries and frameworks?
- Chapter 4. The Architectural Perspective
- FAQ 4.01 What is the purpose of this chapter?
- FAQ 4.02 Why is software architecture important?
- FAQ 4.03 What should the architecture be based on, the problem being solved or the problem domain?
- FAQ 4.04 Should the software architecture be based on the policy of the problem?
- FAQ 4.05 Do customers ever change their requirements?
- FAQ 4.06 Are stable requirements desirable?
- FAQ 4.07 What is the key to planning for change?
- FAQ 4.08 What is a framework?
- FAQ 4.09 What is the inversion of control exhibited by frameworks?
- FAQ 4.10 What is an extensible, domain-specific framework?
- FAQ 4.11 What characteristics make a framework extensible yet domain-specific?
- FAQ 4.12 What happens if the domain analysis is incorrect?
- FAQ 4.13 How much effort should be expended to support changethat is, how much is extensibility worth?
- FAQ 4.14 How does an architect make the software architecture flexible?
- FAQ 4.15 What is the secret to achieving reuse?
- Part II: Object-Oriented Design
- Chapter 5. Object-Oriented Fundamentals
- FAQ 5.01 What is the purpose of this chapter?
- FAQ 5.02 Why is the world adopting OO technology?
- FAQ 5.03 What are some of the benefits of using C for OO programming?
- FAQ 5.04 What are the fundamental concepts of object-oriented technology?
- FAQ 5.05 Why are classes important?
- FAQ 5.06 What is an object?
- FAQ 5.07 What are the desirable qualities of an object?
- FAQ 5.08 How are classes better than the three basic building blocks of procedural software?
- FAQ 5.09 What is the purpose of composition?