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Programming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach using C++

(8 reviews)

Kenneth Leroy Busbee, Houston Community College

Copyright Year: 2013

Publisher: OpenStax CNX

Language: English

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Reviewed by Margaret Bleichman, Professor, Middlesex Community College on 12/7/22

This textbook covers almost all the topics that a typical Programming I or Computing I course that uses the C++ programming language usually requires. The approach it uses corresponds to a 'late objects' approach, which is what my college and the... read more

Reviewed by Trisch Price, Assistant Professor, Johnson County Community College on 4/26/22

Covers all necessary areas for a beginning C++ class. read more

Reviewed by Gayathri Iyer, Full time Faculty and Department Chair, Portland Community College on 12/24/21

The book is very comprehensive and covers everything needed for an Intro to Programming class. I love that it has Program Planning and Design as a topic. This is a very important concept we try to teach students at the beginning of this... read more

Reviewed by Winnie Rex, Senior Lecturer, Bowling Green State University on 2/1/18

The text covers the typical content for an introductory programming course in C++ including decisions, loops, functions, arrays and file I/O. It also has chapters that provide a brief explanation of pointers, object-oriented programming and... read more

Reviewed by Jeffrey Chiampi, Instructor of Computer Science and Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State Univeristy on 2/1/18

The book covers many of the topics I would expect to see in a book for an introductory programming course. It skips multidimensional arrays and structures. Although I wouldn't expect the book to cover the topic extensively it would be nice for it... read more

Reviewed by Andi Toce, Associate Professor, CUNY LaGuardia Community College on 2/1/18

This book is designed for students taking an introductory programming course using the C++ programming language. It includes all the relevant topics for an introductory class. It also provides a lot of material to guide students to develop good... read more

Reviewed by David Smith, Instructor, Portland Community College on 6/20/17

The book does a good job of covering the first term of a programming class. It covers the basics of programming but it's not a perfect fit for a one-term only programming class. Some of the topics not covered are: multidimensional arrays and... read more

Reviewed by David McPherson, Instructor, Virginia Tech on 2/8/17

The book covers all the major topics of C++ up to the C++98 standard. It does have a nice index and table of contents that allows you to find a topic quickly and move to the module quickly. I did not see a glossary. read more

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction to Programming
  • 2. Program Planning & Design
  • 3. Data & Operators
  • 4. Often Used Data Types
  • 5. Integrated Development Environment
  • 6. Program Control Functions
  • 7. Specific Task Functions
  • 8. Standard Libraries
  • 9. Character Data, Sizeof, Typedef, Sequence
  • 10. Introduction to Structured Programming
  • 11. Two Way Selection
  • 12. Multiway Selection
  • 13. Test After Loops
  • 14. Test Before Loops
  • 15. Counting Loops
  • 16. String Class, Unary Positive and Negative
  • 17. Conditional Operator and Recursion
  • 18. Introduction to Arrays
  • 19. File I/O and Array Functions
  • 20. More Array Functions
  • 21. More on Typedef
  • 22. Pointers
  • 23. More Arrays & Compiler Directives
  • 24. OOP & HPC

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About the Book

Programming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach using C++ is written by Kenneth Leroy Busbee, a faculty member at Houston Community College in Houston, Texas. The materials used in this textbook/collection were developed by the author and others as independent modules for publication within the Connexions environment. Programming fundamentals are often divided into three college courses: Modular/Structured, Object Oriented and Data Structures. This textbook/collection covers the first of those three courses.

The learning modules of this textbook/collection were written as standalone modules. Students using a collection of modules as a textbook will usually view it contents by reading the modules sequentially as presented by the author of the collection.

The learning modules of this textbook/collection were, for the most part, written without consideration of a speci??c programming language. In many cases the C++ language is discussed as part of the explanation of the concept. Often the examples used for C++ are exactly the same for the Java programming language. However, some modules were written speci??cally for the C++ programming language. This could not beavoided as the C++ language is used in conjunction with this textbook/collection by the author in teaching college courses.

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Kenneth Leroy Busbee, M.Acc. (Master of Accountancy), Brigham Young University. Teaches programming topics including courses in COBOL, main frame IBM assembly, Intel assembly, Pascal, "C" and "C++"; Business Computer Applications; Principles of Accounting.

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