These are fairly simple, so they can be finished in a reasonable amount of time in a classroom situation while the instructor observes, making sure all the students are absorbing the material. Some exercises are a bit more challenging to keep advanced students entertained. They’re all designed to be solved in a short time and are only there to test and polish your knowledge rather than present major challenges (presumably, you’ll find those on your own—or more likely they’ll find you).

Exercise solutions

Solutions to exercises can be found in the electronic document The C++ Annotated Solution Guide, Volume 2, available for a nominal fee from www.MindView.net^.

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The source code for this book is copyrighted freeware, distributed via the web site http://www.MindView.net. The copyright prevents you from republishing the code in print media without permission^.

In the starting directory where you unpacked the code you will find the following copyright notice:^.

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Language standards

Throughout this book, when referring to conformance to the ANSI/ISO C standard, we will be referring to the 1989 standard, and will generally just say ‘C.’ Only if it is necessary to distinguish between Standard 1989 C and older, pre-Standard versions of C will we make the distinction. We do not reference C99 in this book^.

As this book goes to press the ANSI/ISO C++ committee has long ago finished working on the first C++ standard, commonly known as C++98. We will use the term Standard C++ to refer to this standardized language. If we simply refer to C++, assume we mean «Standard C++.» The C++ standards committee continues to address issues important to the C++ community that will find expression in C++0x, a future C++ standard not likely to be available for many years^.

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