Overview of C++ -- 1. Getting started -- 2. Fundamental types, operators, and simple variables -- 3. Looking and making decisions -- 4. Namespaces and the C++ standard library -- 5. Writing functions in C++ -- 6. Behavior, sequence points, and order of evaluation -- 7. Generic functions -- 8. User-defined types, part 1 : typedef and enum -- 9. User-defined types, part 2 : simple classes (value types) -- 10. User-defined types, part 3 : simple classes (homogeneous entity types) -- 11. Pointers, smart pointers, iterators, and dynamic instances -- 12. User-defined types, part 4 : class hierarchies, polymorphism, inheritance, and subtypes -- 13. Dynamic object creation and polymorphic objects -- 14. Streams, files, and persistence -- 15. Exceptions -- 16. Overloading operators and conversion operators -- 17. Containers, iterators, and algorithms -- 18. Something old, something new -- App. A. Those who went before.