Problem Solving, Abstraction, and Design using C++, 6th edition

Problem Solving, Abstraction, and Design Using C++ presents and reinforces basic principles of software engineering design and object-oriented programming concepts while introducing the C++ programming language. The hallmark feature of this book is the Software Development Method that is introduced in the first chapter and carried throughout in the case studies presented.

• Flexible coverage of programming concepts.
• Conforms to ANSI/ISO C++ standards, including material on the Standard Template Library (STL).
• Makes use of proven pedagogical features, including end-of-section self-check exercises and programming exercises, extensive examples, robust step-by-step case studies, clearly marked program style displays and syntax displays, in-depth chapter reviews, and detailed syntax and run-time error discussions in each chapter.
• Utilizes a dynamic two-color design to draw readers' attention to important material.
• Includes interviews with leading computer scientists to show the significance of the material to the real world.
• Introduces objects early while focusing on problem solving and program design.

New to the Sixth Edition
Students will benefit from a variety of new content, including:

• Graphics coverage implemented throughout the book. Many Computer Science faculty have recommended the use of graphics to help motivate the study of introductory programming and as a vehicle to help students understand how to use libraries and to call functions. The authors agree with this viewpoint and have included several optional sections with graphics examples in this edition. The new graphics sections include:
  • Section 3.8: Introduction to Computer Graphics
  • Section 5.10: Loops in Graphics Programs
  • Section 7.6: Using Type char Data to Control a Graphics Program
  • Section 9.12: Graphics Programs with Arrays

  To reduce the overhead required to introduce graphics, they decided to use WinBGIm (Windows BGI with mouse), which is a package based on the Turbo Pascal BGI (Borland Graphics Interface) library. WinBGIm was created to run on top of the Win32 library by Michael Main and his students at the University of Colorado. Several development platforms appropriate for CS 1 courses have incorporated WinBGIm. Quincy (developed by Al Stevens) is an open-source student-oriented C++ IDE that includes WinBGIm as well as more advanced libraries (http://www.codecutter.net/tools/quincy). A command-line platform based on the open-source GNU g++ compiler and the emacs program editor is distributed by the University of Colorado (http://www.codecutter.net/tools/winbgim). WinBGIm is also available for Bloodshed Software’s Dev-C++ and Microsoft’s Visual Studio C++.

• New Chapter 0 is designed to elucidate the opportunities and structures of the field of computing to introductory students. The authors hope this chapter encourages students to consider a major or minor in computing by illustrating a world in which they can envision themselves.
• Reorganization of coverage of multidimensional arrays and arrays of structs. These topics were moved from Chapter 11 (Data Abstraction and Object-Oriented Design) to Chapter 9 (Arrays and Structs) to keep all coverage of arrays and structs in one chapter and to enable students to complete their study of procedural programming topics before learning how to write classes.
• New Section 7.6 on iterative approximations including a case study on finding roots of an equation.
• New case study in Chapter 11 (An Address Book for an email Provider) that uses the C++ vector class as its underlying data structure.
• New end-of-section exercises and updated case studies.
• New end-of-chapter quick-check and review exercises and new programming project assignments including graphics programming assignments.