Support for PPP2

Modified March 24, 2021.

This is the support site for Stroustrup: "Programming: Principles and Practice using C++ (Second Edition)" Addison-Wesley 2014, ISBN 978-0-321-99278-9.

This book is aimed at beginners taking a programming course and people learning C++ as self study. For details, see these samples:

• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Chapter 0: Notes to the Reader
• Chapter 18: Vectors and Arrays

This book is based on a course I designed for engineering freshmen at Texas A&M; University. It has now been taught by me and others, at TAMU, and elsewhere, in academia and industry, for more than 15 years and to many thousands of students.

This second edition uses the ISO standard C++, C++11 with a few features from C++14: C++11. It is currently available in (physical and web) book stores. For learning how to program, I recommend the paper version.

I wrote an academic paper to explain a possible role for the book/course in a more complete education: Programming in an undergraduate CS curriculum

Note this is not the 4th edition of The C++ Programming Language.

This page and its supporting material is under construction. Comments and suggestions are welcome. In particular, I'd like to hear if someone adopts the book for a course.

By the numbers (about):

• 1305 pages
• 28 chapters
• 5 appendices
• 1 preface
• 1 glossary
• 1 index
• just over a quarter of a million words
• 39 photos
• 67 screen shots
• 174 diagrams
• 120 tables
• 375 exercises
• 26 drills
• 650 review questions
• 55 bibliographical references
• 4lb==1.83kg (that's much heavier than the laptop on which it was written!)

Supporting material:

• PPP Style Guide
• Instructor's Guide
• Lecture slides
• Selected exercise solutions (tar ball)
• An RGB color chart for use with the graphics chapters.
• C++ glossary
• Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ and personal homepages including advice, videos, interviews many of which touches upon education, programming, software development issues, and general information

• Standard library access header Note that different compilation systems and programmer communities have different conventions for where to put header files. The book assumes that a header file is in the same directory/folder as the .cpp files and uses "plain" #include "std_lib_facilities.h". If that doesn't work, try #include "../std_lib_facilities.h" (one level up) and #include "../../std_lib_facilities.h" (two levels up).
• Implementiation of GUI (tar ball).
• First "mysterious" version calculator example for Chapter 6 page 202 "Try This".
• Be-bugged calculator example for Chapter 6 exercise in debugging.
• Be-bugged calculator example for Chapter 7 exercise in debugging.
• support code for PPP2 (tar ball). Beware: this is code recovered from a loss of my previous website and my contain errors. Bug fixes and corrections are welcome.
• Code from the chapters (tar ball). Unfortunately, only from the first edition.

For PPP2, I am assuming that you (the reader) have a working C++11 (or higher) compiler.

Installing FLTK and setting up an IDE can be unreasonably difficult for a novice -- and even for a reasonably experienced person. To save yourself frustrition and time, if you can, get help from someone who has already succeeded. If not, there are sources of help on the Web. I found How I installed FLTK for use with Visual C++, written as I did it useful.

Why birds? Just because I like that photo; I was looking for a calm image. Sometimes a bird is just a bird. They are swans, by the way.