This directory contains the files for 

	 The Teachers' Guide to 
	Practical C++ Programming

		  by
	   Steve Oualline and
	     C. M. Oualline

    Copyright 1996 O'Reilly and Associates.


This electronic book is designed to give teachers access to
slides, examples, teaching notes, and other material to help
them design a complete C++ class.

Included in this book are:

     *	A set of teaching notes which contains classroom
	presentation suggestions, a list of programs 
	for live demonstrations and a set of review questions.

     *	A set of camera ready slides that can be used to 
	aide in the teaching of the material.  

     *	A complete set of programs for each of the programming
	problems presented in "Practical C++ Programming."

     *	Complete source to each of the example programs in the book.

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To use the files in this directory, download the slides, notes,  
answers, examples, and tools for your system.  (Specific instructions
for each system can be found at the end of this file.)

Print the notes and read them.  They contain information that you 
may find helpful in designing and presenting your course.

Use the "nup" program to print the slides in "4 up" format.  Review
them and select the slides that you find useful.  What slides you
use may vary depending on the compiler you are using and your
teaching style.

Once you have selected the slides you want to use, use the "page"
program to extract those pages from the postscript file.  You can
then print them "1 up" for use as overhead slides and "4 up" or "2 up"
for student nodes.

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The files in this directory are:

    ans_bcc.zip		Answers to the programming problems
			Tailored for the Borland C++ compiler
			pkzip format

    ans_msc.zip		Answers to the programming problems
			Tailored for the Borland C++ compiler
			pkzip format

    ans_tcc.zip		Answers to the programming problems
			Tailored for the Borland C++ compiler
			pkzip format

    answers_gnu.gz	Answers to the programming problems
			Tailored for the Borland C++ compiler
			pkzip format

    answers_unx.gz	Answers to the programming problems
			Tailored for the Borland C++ compiler
			Tar'ed and GNU zipped file

    ex_bcc.zip		Example programs
			Tailored for the Borland C++ compiler
			pkzip format

    ex_msc.zip		Example programs
			Tailored for the Borland C++ compiler
			pkzip format

    ex_tcc.zip		Example programs
			Tailored for the Borland C++ compiler
			pkzip format

    examples_gnu.gz	Example programs
			Tailored for the Borland C++ compiler
			Tar'ed and GNU zipped file

    examples_unx.gz	Example programs
			Tailored for the Borland C++ compiler
			Tar'ed and GNU zipped file

    notes.zip		Teaching notes
			pkzip format

    notes_ps.gz		Teaching notes
			Tar'ed and GNU zipped file

    slides.zip		Slides
			pkzip format

    slides_ps.gz	Slides
			Tar'ed and GNU zipped file

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Instructions for specific systems
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MS-DOS using the Borland Turbo-C++ compiler

    Download the files:

	pkunzip.exe
	ans_tcc.zip
	ex_tcc.zip
	notes.zip
	slides.zip
	tools.zip

    Unpack the files with the command:

	pkunzip -p ans_tcc.zip
	pkunzip -p ex_tcc.zip
	pkunzip -p notes.zip
	pkunzip -p slides.zip
	pkunzip -p tools.zip
	
MS-DOS / Windows Using the Borland C++ compiler

    Download the files:

	pkunzip.exe
	ans_bcc.zip
	ex_bcc.zip
	notes.zip
	slides.zip
	tools.zip

    Unpack the files with the command:

	pkunzip -p ans_bcc.zip
	pkunzip -p ex_bcc.zip
	pkunzip -p notes.zip
	pkunzip -p slides.zip
	pkunzip -p tools.zip
	
MS-DOS / Windows Using the Microsoft C++ compiler

    Download the files:

	pkunzip.exe
	ans_msc.zip
	ex_msc.zip
	notes.zip
	slides.zip
	tools.zip

    Unpack the files with the command:

	pkunzip -p ans_msc.zip
	pkunzip -p ex_msc.zip
	pkunzip -p notes.zip
	pkunzip -p slides.zip
	pkunzip -p tools.zip
	
UNIX using the GNU (g++) compiler

    Download the files:

	answers_gnu.gz
	examples_gnu.gz
	notes.gz
	slides.gz
	tools.gz

    Unpack the files with the command:

	zcat answers_gnu.gz	| tar xvfB -
	zcat examples_gnu.gz	| tar xvfB -
	zcat notes.gz		| tar xvfB -
	zcat slides.gz		| tar xvfB -
	zcat tools.gz		| tar xvfB -

    Note: The gzip package can be obtained via ftp from 
    prep.ai.mit.edu in the directory /pub/gnu
	
UNIX using a generic (CC) compiler

    Download the files:

	answers_unx.gz
	examples_unx.gz
	notes.gz
	slides.gz
	tools.gz

    Unpack the files with the command:

	zcat answers_unx.gz	| tar xvfB -
	zcat examples_unx.gz	| tar xvfB -
	zcat notes.gz		| tar xvfB -
	zcat slides.gz		| tar xvfB -
	zcat tools.gz		| tar xvfB -
	
    Note: The gzip package can be obtained via ftp from 
    prep.ai.mit.edu in the directory /pub/gnu