Welcome
The table below gives an outline of the course. Powerpoint presentations for each lecture are available for download as PDFs (click the appropriate link), plus coding resources for the coursework (where applicable). You will need the password provided in the lecture to unzip the files provided here.
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Recommended texts
Students have asked me if there is a textbook to accompany this course - to which the answer is no. All the information you need to complete the course is either given in the handouts or available on questionaing during the tutorials.
Nevertheless, for those who wish to do a little background reading, I can recommend the following books, which have the (considerable) virtues of being slim enough to warrant reading from cover to cover and are written by acknowledged world-experts in C++.
- You can program in C++. A programmer's introduction by Francis Glassborow, 368pp, Wiley, ISBN 0-470-01468-7
- You can do it! A beginner's introduction to computer programming by Francis Glassborow (with Roberta Allen), 353pp, Wiley, ISBN 0-470-86398-6
- Accelerated C++. Practical programming by example by Andrew Koenig and Barbara E. Moo, 336pp, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-70353-X
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