What the book coves: The purpose of this book is to provide simple, quick, time saving techniques (over 70!) that can be used by all programmers at any level of experience in order
to improve their application development.

Some of the techniques that will be covered include:

   - Mastering the evils of asserts
   - Creating a complete class
   - Hiding a method of a base class
   - Freeing blocks of memory
   - Implementing a simple locking mechanism
   - Creating debugging macros
   - Checking for errors at run-time
   - Memory leaks and how to find them
   - Beware the overloaded method
   - Reducing complexity of code

Series features: Breaks programming tasks and topics into hands-on techniques focused on giving readers the most efficient means of completing a task. Designed to encourage quick reading, including two-column format and enable reader to streamline the programming process in C++.

Part I Streamlining the means and mechanics of OOP
Part II Working with the pre-processor
Part III Types
Part IV Classes
Part V Arrays and templates
Part VI Input and output
Part VII Using the built-in functionality
Part VIII Utilities
Part IX Debugging C++ applications
Part X The scary (or fun!) stuff

Author Description

Matthew Telles is a veteran C++ programmer and computer book author. A former Microsoft associate, he is now the senior development lead for Research Systems Inc.