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Eighth Edition

Siddhartha Rao

800 East 96th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240 USA

Sams Teach Yourself C++ in One Hour a Day, Eighth Edition

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ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-5774-6

ISBN-10: 0-7897-5774-5

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016958138

First Printing: December 2016

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In memory of my father, who will continue to be my source of inspiration.

I am thankful to my family for the immense support, to my wife Clara, and to the editorial staff for their spirited engagement in getting this book to you!

Siddhartha Rao is the Vice President in charge of Security Response at SAP SE, the worlds leading supplier of enterprise software. The evolution of C++ convinces Siddhartha that you can program faster, simpler, and more powerful applications than ever before. He loves traveling and is a passionate mountain biker. He looks forward to your feedback on this effort!

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2011 and 2014 were two special years for C++. While C++11 ushered in a dramatic improvement to C++, introducing new keywords and constructs that increased your programming efficiency, C++14 brought in incremental improvements that added finishing touches to the features introduced by C++11.

This book helps you learn C++ in tiny steps. It has been thoughtfully divided into lessons that teach you the fundamentals of this object-oriented programming language from a practical point of view. Depending on your proficiency level, you will be able to master C++ one hour at a time.

Learning C++ by doing is the best wayso try the rich variety of code samples in this book hands-on and help yourself improve your programming proficiency. These code snippets have been tested using the latest versions of the available compilers at the time of writing, namely the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler for C++ and GNUs C++ compiler, which both offer a rich coverage of C++14 features.