C++ Primer Notes and Solutions

This project contains my personal notes and solutions to the exercises in the C++ Primer (5th) book. I created this project to reinforce and deepen my knowledge of the C++ programming language.

I checked my answers against Mooophy/Cpp-Primer

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Getting Started

• Chapter 2: Variables and Basic Types

  • 2.1. Primitive Built-in Types

  • 2.2. Variables

  • 2.3. Compound Types

  • 2.4. const Qualifier

    • 2.4.1. References to const
    • 2.4.2. Pointers and const
    • 2.4.3. Top-level const
    • 2.4.4. constexpr and Constant Expressions

  • 2.5. Dealing with Types

    • 2.5.1. Type Aliases
    • 2.5.2. The auto Type Specifier
    • 2.5.3. The decltype Type Specifier

  • 2.6. Defining Our Own Data Structures

    • 2.6.1. Defining the Sales_data Type
    • 2.6.3. Writing Our Own Header Files

  • Exercises

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    • Exercise 2.15
    • Exercise 2.16
    • Exercise 2.17
    • Exercise 2.18
    • Exercise 2.21
    • Exercise 2.24
    • Exercise 2.25
    • Exercise 2.26
    • Exercise 2.27
    • Exercise 2.28
    • Exercise 2.29
    • Exercise 2.30
    • Exercise 2.31
    • Exercise 2.32
    • Exercise 2.33
    • Exercise 2.35
    • Exercise 2.36
    • Exercise 2.37
    • Exercise 2.38
    • Exercise 2.40
    • Exercise 2.41
    • Exercise 2.42

• Chapter 3. Strings, Vectors, and Arrays

  • 3.1. Namespace using Declarations

  • 3.2. Library string Type

  • 3.3. Library vector Type

    • 3.3.1. Defining and Initializing vectors

  • 3.4. Introducing Iterators

  • 3.5. Arrays

    • 3.5.1. Defining and Initializing Built-in Arrays
    • 3.5.3. Pointers and Arrays
    • 3.5.4. C-Style Character Strings
    • 3.5.5. Interfacing to Older Code

  • 3.6. Multidimensional Arrays

  • Exercises

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    • Exercise 3.2
    • Exercise 3.3
    • Exercise 3.5
    • Exercise 3.6
    • Exercise 3.7
    • Exercise 3.8
    • Exercise 3.9
    • Exercise 3.10
    • Exercise 3.11
    • Exercise 3.12
    • Exercise 3.13
    • Exercise 3.17
    • Exercise 3.18
    • Exercise 3.19
    • Exercise 3.20
    • Exercise 3.22
    • Exercise 3.23
    • Exercise 3.25
    • Exercise 3.26
    • Exercise 3.27
    • Exercise 3.28
    • Exercise 3.29
    • Exercise 3.30
    • Exercise 3.32
    • Exercise 3.33
    • Exercise 3.34
    • Exercise 3.35
    • Exercise 3.36
    • Exercise 3.37
    • Exercise 3.38
    • Exercise 3.39
    • Exercise 3.40
    • Exercise 3.41
    • Exercise 3.42
    • Exercise 3.43

• Chapter 4. Expressions

  • 4.1. Fundamentals

    • 4.1.1. Basic Concepts
    • 4.1.2. Precedence and Associativity
    • 4.1.3. Order of Evaluation

  • 4.2. Arithmetic Operators

  • 4.3. Logical and Relational Operators

  • 4.4. Assignment Operators

  • 4.5. Increment and Decrement Operators

  • 4.6. The Member Access Operators

  • 4.7. The Conditional Operator

  • 4.8. The Bitwise Operators

  • 4.9. The sizeof Operator

  • 4.10. Comma Operator

  • 4.11. Type Conversions

  • Exercises

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    • Exercise 4.3
    • Exercise 4.6
    • Exercise 4.7
    • Exercise 4.9
    • Exercise 4.10
    • Exercise 4.11
    • Exercise 4.12
    • Exercise 4.13
    • Exercise 4.15
    • Exercise 4.16
    • Exercise 4.17
    • Exercise 4.19
    • Exercise 4.20
    • Exercise 4.23
    • Exercise 4.25
    • Exercise 4.29
    • Exercise 4.35
    • Exercise 4.37
    • Exercise 4.38

• Chapter 5. Statements

  • Exercises

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    • Exercise 5.4
    • Exercise 5.8
    • Exercise 5.13
    • Exercise 5.15
    • Exercise 5.19
    • Exercise 5.23
    • Exercise 5.24
    • Exercise 5.25

• Chapter 6. Functions

  • 6.1. Function Basics

    • 6.1.1. Local Objects
    • 6.1.3. Separate Compilation

  • 6.2. Argument Passing

    • 6.2.2. Passing Arguments by Reference
    • 6.2.3. const Parameters and Arguments
    • 6.2.4. Array Parameters
    • 6.2.5. main: Handling Command-Line Options
    • 6.2.6. Functions with Varying Parameters

  • 6.3. Return Types and the return Statement

    • 6.3.1. Functions with No Return Value
    • 6.3.2. Functions That Return a Value
    • 6.3.3. Returning a Pointer to an Array

  • 6.4. Overloaded Functions

    • 6.4.1. Overloading and Scope

  • 6.5. Features for Specialized Uses

    • 6.5.1. Default Arguments
    • 6.5.2. Inline and constexpr Functions
    • 6.5.3. Aids for Debugging

  • 6.6. Function Matching

    • 6.6.1. Argument Type Conversions

  • 6.7. Pointers to Functions

  • Exercises

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    • Exercise 6.1
    • Exercise 6.6
    • Exercise 6.7
    • Exercise 6.8
    • Exercise 6.9
    • Exercise 6.10
    • Exercise 6.12
    • Exercise 6.16
    • Exercise 6.18
    • Exercise 6.20
    • Exercise 6.21
    • Exercise 6.24
    • Exercise 6.29
    • Exercise 6.31
    • Exercise 6.32
    • Exercise 6.35
    • Exercise 6.36
    • Exercise 6.37
    • Exercise 6.38
    • Exercise 6.39
    • Exercise 6.40
    • Exercise 6.41
    • Exercise 6.43
    • Exercise 6.46
    • Exercise 6.48
    • Exercise 6.52
    • Exercise 6.53
    • Exercise 6.54
    • Exercise 6.55
    • Exercise 6.56

• Chapter 7. Classes

  • 7.1. Defining Abstract Data Types

    • 7.1.2. Defining the Revised Sales_data Class
    • 7.1.4. Constructors
    • 7.1.5. Copy, Assignment, and Destruction

  • 7.2. Access Control and Encapsulation

    • 7.2.1. Friends

  • 7.3. Additional Class Features

    • 7.3.1. Class Members Revisited (example in the book)
    • 7.3.2. Functions That Return *this
    • 7.3.4 Friendship Revisited

  • 7.4. Class Scope

    • 7.4.1. Name Lookup and Class Scope

  • 7.5. Constructors Revisited

    • 7.5.1. Constructor Initializer List
    • 7.5.3. The Role of the Default Constructor
    • 7.5.4. Implicit Class-Type Conversions
    • 7.5.5. Aggregate Classes
    • 7.5.6. Literal Classes
      • constexpr Constructors

  • 7.6. static Class Members

    • Declaring static Members
    • Using a Class static Member
    • Defining static Members
    • In-Class Initialization of static Data Members
    • static Members Can Be Used in Ways Ordinary Members Can't

  • Exercises

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    • Exercise 7.4
    • Exercise 7.5
    • Exercise 7.10
    • Exercise 7.18
    • Exercise 7.25
    • Exercise 7.27
    • Exercise 7.28
    • Exercise 7.31
    • Exercise 7.34
    • Exercise 7.35
    • Exercise 7.38
    • Exercise 7.39
    • Exercise 7.43
    • Exercise 7.44
    • Exercise 7.45
    • Exercise 7.47
    • Exercise 7.50
    • Exercise 7.51
    • Exercise 7.54
    • Exercise 7.55
    • Exercise 7.58