Stephen R. Davis starts from scratch: How does a program work? How do you install the programming environment and the compiler? And what is that, anyway? Next, you will learn fundamental programming techniques: variable declaration, loops, functions, and much more. Five chapters are dedicated to the different variable types, so you'll be well-prepared for the famous C++ pointers. Not too difficult, right? Following that is an introduction to object-oriented programming, and before you know it, concepts like class inheritance, operator overloading, and exception handling will be within your reach. With the downloadable programming examples, you can directly try out what you've learned.