本書涉及到C語言概述的計算機編程語言、基本要素、控制結構（選擇）、用戶定義的函數、用戶定義的簡單數據類型，命名空間，和字符串類型、數組和字符串、記錄（結構）、繼承和組合、指針，類，虛函數，抽象類，并列、重載和模板、異常處理、遞歸、鏈表、棧和隊列、搜索和排序算法、圖形、標準模板庫（STL）等等......。

目錄:

1 an overview of computers and programming languages
27 basic elements of C++
183 control structures I (selection)
259 control structures II (repetition)
335 user-defined functions
451 user-defined simple data types,namespaces,and the string type
505 arrays and strings
591 records (structs)
629 classes and data abstraction
709 inheritance and composition
781 pointers,classes,virtual functions,abstract classes,and lists
867 overloading and templates
959 exception handling
1001 recursion
1031 linked lists
1123 stacks and queues
1223 searching and sorting algorithms
1305 binary trees
1361 graphs
1399 standard template library (STL)
1601 index