Introduction to C++ Programming and Graphics
C. Pozrikidis
Springer
2007
This book offers a venue for rapidly learning the C++ language by illustrating step-by-step the basic syntax, grammar, and main features, and by explaining the basic ideas behind object-oriented programming with emphasis on scientific computing and graphics.
Why this book?
Though several hundred books on C++ are available, this text is unique in several ways:
- It explains the language without unnecessary verbiage (those who have lifted C++ books without proper stretching exercises have experienced intenst pain.)
- It concisely clarifies the basic concepts underlying the notion of Object Oriented Programming (OOP).
- It demonstrates how to make a transition to C++ from another high-level language such as Fortran or Matlab.
- It discusses graphics programming based on the VOGLE, openGL, and GLUT graphics libraries.
- It explains how to call Matlab functions from C++ and thereby perform numerical computation and generate graphics.
- It serves as a ready reference with tables and appendices.
Errata
| Page | Courtesy of | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Paragraph under "Signed integers" please change "1101" to "1011" in two places. | Eino Juhani Oltedal |
| 6 | Please change "Terabyte (Gbyte)" to "Terabyte (Tbyte)" | Yair Treister |
| 13 | Please change "is 4,294,967,296" to "is 4,294,967,295" | Joseph Roy D. North |
| 29 | Please change "10.3 ..." to "10.45 ..." | Yair Treister |
| 60 | Please change "date" to "data" | |
| 84 | Selection sort: please insert a line containing "{" after the first "for" loop; please replace the parentheses with square brackets in three places at the last three lines. | Ambrose Chongo |
| 95 | Please change "3.14157" to "3.14159". Please change "pi = 3.14157" to "3.14159" | Yair Treister |
| 109 | Please replace "maxal" with "max_alias" | Ambrose Chongo |
| 118 | Please replace "void kalaboki()" with "int kalaboki()" | Ambrose Chongo |