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The book assumes that you aim eventually to write non-trivial programs, whether for work in software development or in some other technical field. The book explains fundamental concepts & techniques in greater depth than traditional introductions. This approach will give you a solid foundation for writing useful, correct, maintainable, and efficient code.The book is an introduction to programming in general, including object-oriented programming & generic programming. It is also a solid introduction to the C++ programming language, one of the most widely used languages for real-world software. The book presents modern C++ programming techniques from the start, introducing the C++ standard library to simplify programming tasks. The book is primarily designed for people who have never programmed before, and it has been tested with more than 1,000 first-year university students. However, practitioners & advanced students will gain new insight & guidance by seeing how a recognized master approaches the elements of his art.The first half of the book covers a wide range of essential concepts, design and programming techniques, language features, and libraries. Those will enable you to write programs involving input, output, computation, and simple graphics. The second half explores more specialized topics, such as text processing and testing, and provides abundant reference material. Source code and support supplements are available from the author's website.