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1.75in;}div.Section27	{page:Section27;}@page Section28	{size:8.5in 11.0in;	margin:135.35pt 1.5in 1.6in 1.75in;}div.Section28	{page:Section28;} <font color=#7F7F7F>/* List Definitions */</font> ol	{margin-bottom:0in;}ul	{margin-bottom:0in;}--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=red vlink=purple><center><b><span style='font-size:24pt;font-family:Verdana'>Thinking In C++</span><br><br><span style='font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana'>Volume 2: Practical Programming</span><br><br><span style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana'>Bruce Eckel, President, MindView, Inc.</span><br><span style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana'>Chuck Allison, Utah Valley State College</span><br><br><br><span style='font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana'><a href="http://mindview.net/Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html">Book Home Page</a></span><br><span style='font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana'><a href="http://mindview.net/Books/TICPPV2/Solutions">Annotated Solution Guide</a></span><br><span style='font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana'><a href="http://mindview.net:8080/TICPPV2/">Report Errors Here</a></span><br></b></center><br><br><h3 style='margin-left:.1in'><a href="#cover">Cover</a></h3><h4><a href="#_TocRef53985602">Introduction</a></h4><h3 style='margin-left:.1in'><a href="#_TocRef53985614">Part 1: Building Stable Systems</a></h3><h4><a href="#_TocRef53985615">1: Exception handling</a></h4><h4><a href="#_TocRef53985643">2: Defensive programming</a></h4><h3 style='margin-left:.1in'><a href="#_TocRef53985656">Part 2: The Standard C++ Library</a></h3><h4><a href="#_TocRef53985657">3: Strings in depth</a></h4><h4><a href="#_TocRef53985673">4: Iostreams</a></h4><h4><a href="#_TocRef53985706">5: Templates in depth</a></h4><h4><a href="#_TocRef53985741">6: Generic algorithms</a></h4><h4><a href="#_TocRef53985769">7: Generic containers</a></h4><h3 style='margin-left:.1in'><a href="#_TocRef53985807">Part 3: Special Topics</a></h3><h4><a href="#_TocRef53985808">8: Runtime type identification</a></h4><h4><a href="#_TocRef53985820">9: Multiple inheritance</a></h4><h4><a href="#_TocRef53985831">10: Design patterns</a></h4><h4><a href="#_TocRef53985862">11: Concurrency</a></h4><h3 style='margin-left:.1in'><a href="#_TocRef53985892">Appendix</a></h3><h4><a href="#_TocRef53985892">A: Recommended reading</a></h4><h4><a href="#_TocRef53985898">B: Etc</a></h4><h4><a href="#_TocRef53985899">Index</a></h4><br><br><div class=Section1><p class=MsoNormal>