Starting Out with C++ from Control Structures to Objects

Key differences between 9th and 8th editions

• Period between current and previous editions: 3 years (2017 vs 2014).
• The Ninth edition of Gaddis's Starting Out with C++ introduces many new C++11 language features.
• Exercise Editor provides the opportunity to design new programming exercises.
• New Chapter 17 dedicated to Standard Template Library:
• STL containers and iterators
• The map, multi map, and unordered_map Classes
• The set, multi set, and unordered_set Classes
• Sorting and searching algorithms, set algorithms, permutation algorithms
• Function objects and lambda expression.
• Chapter 2: assignments and initialization, including functional notation, brace notation.
• Chapter 8: new example of sorting and searching vectors of strings.
• Chapter 9: sectopn on Smart Pointers covers shared_ptr s and weak_ptr s.
• Chapter 10:
• How to split (tokenize) a string
• String -to-number conversion functions.
• Chapter 13 :
• Member initializer list of a constructor
• In-place initialization.
• Delegating constructors
• Chapter 14: How to use rvalue references to create move constructors and move assignment operators to take advantage of move semantic.