Introduction to computers and C++ -- Introduction to C++ programming, input/output and operators -- Introduction to classes, objects, member functions and strings -- Algorithm development and control statements: part I -- Control statements, part 2; logical operators -- Functions and an introduction to recursion -- Class templates array and vector; catching exceptions -- Pointers -- Classes: a deeper look -- Operator overloading; Class string -- Object-oriented programming: inheritance -- Object-oriented programming: polymorphism -- Stream input/output: a deeper look -- File processing -- Standard library containers and ilerators -- Standard library algorithms -- Exception handling: a deeper look -- Introduction to custom templates -- Custom templatized data structures -- Searching and sorting -- Class string and string stream processing: a deeper look -- Bits, characters, C strings and structs -- Operator precedence and associativity -- ASCII character set -- Fundamental types -- Number systems -- Preprocessor