C++ Programming: An Object-Oriented Approach in the first edition offers to its students a strong pedagogical foundation and complements a course designed to teach object-oriented programming using the syntax of the C++ language. It prepares its students for advanced concepts such as data structure and design patterns with a more recent additions to C++ which includes the Standard Template Library (STL). Students who have completed this course will be ready to take on any other object-oriented language course, a data-structure course, or a course about design patterns.