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Think C++Allen B. DowneyVersion C++Copyright (C) 1999 Allen B. DowneyGreen Tea Press9 Washburn AveNeedham MA 02492Permission is granted to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt this work undera Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike InternationalLicense: you are interested in distributing a commercial version of this work, pleasecontact the LATEX source and code for this book is available The way of the What is a programming language? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What is a program? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What is debugging? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Compile-time errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Run-time errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Logic errors and semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Experimental debugging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Formal and natural languages.

to the AP questions. On the other hand, if you understand the concepts in this book, along with the details of programming in C++, you will have all the tools you need to do well on the exam. 1.1 What is a programming language? The programming language you will be learning is C++, because that is the language the AP exam is based on, as of 1998.

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