Offering students a tutorial on the basic differences between C and C++, the object model, design methods, and C++ programming, this text includes utility classes and case studies, which illustrate object-oriented programming, with all source code included on a disk in the text. The book illustrates concepts behind object-oriented design, going beyond a discussion of the C++ language to give students a deeper knowledge of the benefits of object-oriented programming. An extensive class library developed in the texts examples, which is also available via FTP, allows instructors to add new classes, extend existing ones, and add new student assignments. Adhering to the most current draft of the C++ standard it offers a review of function parameters, pointers, arrays and dynamic memory allocation to help students transfer knowledge of C programming to the C++ language and prepare them for C++ enhancements.