Computing Fundamentals with C++, Third Edition (Grayscale Indian Edition)

This long-awaited update to Rick Mercer’s introductory book, first published in 1993, is written for students in a first course in a Computer Science curriculum using the C++ programming language. It is appropriate for students with no programming experience as well as those with programming experience in another language.

Computing Fundamentals with C++, 3rd Edition emphasizes computing fundamentals while recognizing the relevance and validity of object-oriented programming. This book is the result of decades of reasoning about how best to facilitate student learning in the first course of the computer science curriculum, how best to integrate objects and classes into it, and how best to prepare students for the next course.

What’s New in This Third Edition?

This third edition contains dramatic improvements in programming projects, making them more interesting and challenging. Included are projects developed and class-tested at the University of Arizona.

Chapters on inheritance, object-oriented programming and design, operator overloading, and recursion have been removed to make this book more compatible with CS1 curriculum, while adding a few topics from CS2, such as generic collections with templates.

This edition also incorporates a few appropriate newer additions to C++, such as the long-overdue literal nullptr.

About the Author

Rick Mercer is Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at University of Arizona.