Migrating from Pascal to C++ [Paperback]

Many students and programmers familiar with Pascal are now looking to upgrade their skills to a well-structured object-oriented programming language such as C++. This textbook provides such an upgrade path by presenting a course on C++ in the spirit of structured programming. Both authors teach this material to a wide variety of students and include numerous programming exercises to test a reader's understanding and to increase their confidence in programming in C++.Many students and programmers familiar with Pascal are now looking to upgrade their skills to a well-structured object-oriented programming language such as C++. This textbook provides such an upgrade path by presenting a course on C++ in the spirit of structured programming. Both authors teach this material to a wide variety of students and include numerous programming exercises to test a reader's understanding and to increase their confidence in programming in C++.1C++ as Structured Programming: An Historical Perspective.- 1.0 Introduction.- 1.1 Structured Programming.- History of Pascal as Structured Programming.- Control Structures.- Data Structures.- Other Characteristics of Structured Programming.- Concluding Remarks on Structured Programming.- 1.2 Algorithms + Data Structures = Objects.- Classes and Objects for the Pascal Programmer.- Simula-Like Classes.- The Power of Classes and Objects.- Concluding Remarks on Classes and Objects.- 1.3 Programming Paradigms.- Goals for C++.- References.- 2The C++ Subset That Covers Pascal.- 2.0 Introduction.- 2.1 Orientation to C++.- C++ Is in Lower Case.- Program Comments.- Using Libraries.- The main() Function.- Building a C++ Program.- 2.2 Data Types and Data Structures.- Constants.- Enumerated Data Types.- The Subrange Type.- The Struct.- Arrays.- 2.3 Arithmetic, Boolean, and Logical Expressions.- Cast Float.- The Cast int.- Data Conversion with Assignment.- Chars and Ints.- Relational and Logical Operators.- Precedence in Relational Expressions.- 2.4 l“)