C++ tutorial

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1000 undergrads over the past several years that the subset of C++ … You should not need a book on C++ to do the Nachos assignments, but if you are …

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A Quick Introduction to C++
Tom Anderson
based on an earlier version written by Wayne Christopher
August 30, 1995
If programming in Pascal is like being put in a straightjacket, then program-
ming in C is like playing with knives, and programming in C++ is like juggling
chainsaws.”
Anonymous.
1 Introduction
This note introduces some simple C++ concepts and outlines a subset of C++ that is easier
to learn and use than the full language. It is targeted to those just learning C++, but even
if you already know the language, you might nd it useful. I assume that you are already
somewhat familiar with C concepts like procedures, for loops, and pointers; these are pretty
easy to pick up from reading Kernighan and Ritchie’s C book [KR80].
I should admit up front that I am quite opinionated about C++, if that isn’t obvious
already. I know several C++ purists (an oxymoron perhaps?…