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Pointers to C++ Member Functions

A tutorial on a useful yet poorly understood language feature, useful as a cache or to enable a different sort of polymorphism.

A few notes concerning C++ integral data types

On this page, a few sides of dealing with whole numbers in C++ are described. In particular, a few notes and examples are reported that could help avoiding mistakes while using integers.

Techniques for Scientific C++

This report summarizes useful techniques for implementing scientific programs in C++, with an emphasis on using templates to improve performance.

Casting in C++: Bringing Safety and Smartness to Your Programs

The new C++ standard is full of powerful additions to the language: templates, run-time type identification (RTTI), namespaces, and exceptions to name a few. Rather than talk about one of these ``major'' extensions, I will discuss one of the minor extensions: the new C++ casting operators.

Guide to Network Programming(C++)

Hey! Socket programming got you down? Is this stuff just a little too difficult to figure out from the man pages? You want to do cool Internet programming, but you don't have time to wade through a gob of structs trying to figure out if you have to call bind() before you connect(), etc.

Connecting to an Ms Access Database via ODBC with C/C++

Connecting to an MS Access Database via ODBC with C/C++ and connecting an MS Access Database to the Internet.

Pointers

Pointer Tutorial

Using Namespaces Properly ( C++)

Namespaces are a very powerful C++ language feature. This article does not teach you the syntax of namespaces. Rather, it shows you how to use them properly.n my AP Computer Science class in a very condensed context. Here is an index of the different features of the C++ language that I will be going over.

Is Ada a better C?

This is an article which appeared in EXE magazine in May 1997, under the slightly modified title of 'Ada better than C++?', comparing C++ and Ada language facilities under DOS.