Brief contents: introduction to computers, the internet and the world wide web; introduction to C++ programming; introduction to classes and objects; control statements; functions and an introduction to recursion; arrays and vectors; pointers; classes: a deeper look; operator overloading; object-oriented programming: inheritance, polymorphism; templates; stream input/output; exception handling; file processing; class string and string stream processing; searching and sorting; data structures; bits, charaters, C strings and structs; standard template library (STL).