Conventions Used in This Book

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Some of the unique features in this series include

GEEK SPEAK: An icon in the margin indicates the use of a new term . New terms appear in the paragraph in italic.

NOTE

You'll see an icon set in the margin next to a box that contains a technical term and how it should be pronounced. For example, "cin is pronounced see-in, and cout is pronounced see-out."

graphics/runit.gif An icon in the margin indicates code that can be entered, compiled, and run.

NOTE

Excursions are short diversions from the main topic being discussed, and they offer an opportunity to flesh out your understanding of a topic.

Concept Web ” With a book of this type, a topic can be discussed in multiple places as a result of when and where we add functionality during application development. To help make this all clear, we've included a Concept Web that provides a graphical representation of how all the programming concepts relate to one another. You'll find it on the inside front cover of this book.

NOTE

Notes give you comments and asides about the topic at hand, as well as full explanations of certain concepts.

TIP

Tips provide great shortcuts and hints on how to program in C++ more effectively.

WARNING

Warnings warn you against making your life miserable and to avoid the pitfalls in programming.

In addition, you'll find various typographic conventions throughout this book:

Commands, variables ,and other code appear in text in a special computer font .
In this book,I build on existing listings as we examine code further.When I add new sections to existing code,you 'll spot it in bold computer font.
Commands and such that you type appear in boldface type.
Placeholders in syntax descriptions appear in an italic computer font .This indicates that you will replace the placeholder with the actual filename,parameter,or other element that it represents.

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