An overview of C++: What is object-Oriented Programming? Introducing C++ Classes, The General Form of a C++ Program.

Classes and Objects: Classes, Friend Functions, Friend Classes, Inline Functions, Parameterized Constructors, Static Class Members, When Constructors and Destructors are Executed, The Scope Resolution Operator, Passing Objects to functions, Returning Objects, Object Assignment.

Arrays, Pointers, References, and the Dynamic Allocation Operators: Arrays of Objects, Pointers to Objects, The this Pointer, Pointers to derived types, Pointers to class members.

Functions Overloading, Copy Constructors: Functions Overloading, Overloading Constructor Functions. Copy Constructors, Default Function Arguments, Function Overloading and Ambiguity.

Operator Overloading: Creating a Member Operator Function, Operator Overloading Using a Friend Function, Overloading new and delete.

Inheritance: Base-Class Access Control, Inheritance and Protected Members, Inheriting Multiple Base Classes , Constructors, Destructors and Inheritance, Granting Access, Virtual Base Classes.

Virtual Functions and Polymorphism: Virtual Functions, The Virtual Attribute is Inherited, Virtual Functions are Hierarchical, Pure Virtual Functions, Using Virtual Functions, Early vs Late Binding.

Templates: Generic Functions, Applying Generic Functions, Generic Classes. The type name and export Keywords. The Power of Templates.

Exception Handling: Exception Handling Fundamentals, Handling Derived-Class Exceptions, Exception Handling Options, Applying Exception Handling.

The C++ I/O System Basics: C++ Streams, The C++ Classes, Formatted I/O.

File I/O: and File Classes, Opening and Closing a File, Reading and Writing Text Files, Detecting EOF.