# Chapter 1 Chapter 1: Overview of the chapters 2 Chapter 2: Introduction 3 Chapter 3: A first impression of C++ 4 Chapter 4: The `string' data type 5 Chapter 5: The IO-stream Library 6 Chapter 6: Classes 7 Chapter 7: Classes and memory allocation 8 Chapter 8: Exceptions 9 Chapter 9: More Operator Overloading 10 Chapter 10: Static data and functions 11 Chapter 11: Friends 12 Chapter 12: Abstract Containers 13 Chapter 13: Inheritance 14 Chapter 14: Polymorphism 15 Chapter 15: Classes having pointers to members 16 Chapter 16: Nested Classes 17 Chapter 17: The Standard Template Library, generic algorithms 18 Chapter 18: Template functions 19 Chapter 19: Template classes 20 Chapter 20: Concrete examples of C++ 21 Index