Written for the moderately experienced Java programmer, this book builds on readers existing knowledge of object-oriented programming and covers all important aspects of Standard C++-emphasizing more lower-level C-style details later in the presentation. Chapter topics include philosophy of C++, simplest C++, pointers and reference variables, object-based programming: classes, operator overloading, object-oriented programming: inheritance, templates, abnormal control flow, input and output, collections: the standard template library, primitive arrays and strings, C-style C++, and using Java and C++: the JNI. For new C++ programmers converted from Java.