The book contains: Introduction to object oriented programming, user defined types, polymorphism, and encapsulation. Getting started with C++ - syntax, data-type, variables, strings, functions, exceptions and statements, namespaces and exceptions operators. Flow control, functions, recursion. Arrays and pointers, structures. Abstraction mechanisms: Classes, private, public, constructors, destructors, member functions, static members, references, etc., class hierarchy, derived classes. Inheritance: simple inheritance, polymorphism, object slicing, base initialization, virtual functions.