Chapter 2. Getting Started Quickly: A Brief Overview of C++

Topics in this Chapter

• The Basic Program Structure

• Preprocessor Directives

• Comments

• Declarations and Definitions

• Statements and Expressions

• Functions and Function Calls

• Classes

• Dealing with Program Development Tools

• Summary

In this chapter, I will briefly preview the basic programming constructs of the C++ language before going on to discuss them in more depth in the chapters that follow. Because C++ is a large language, anything that is "brief" is not going to cover much of the language, and anything that indeed reviews the most important features of the language is not going to be "brief." I will try to strike a reasonable compromise.