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General tutorials and references on the web

• http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/subject-index.html
• http://www.fredosaurus.com/notes-cpp
• http://cplus.about.com/library/blcplustut.htm?PM=ss12_cplus
• http://www.cplusplus.com/
• http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html
• http://www.cppreference.com/

Specific topics

• Make: [brief intro], [full documentation] - note that the method outlined in the brief intro may not work for templated classes, because the g++ compiler will only instantiate classes from a template that it knows it needs at compile time. (This is why we include the ".cc" files for a templated class along with the ".h" files.)
• copy constructors: [here], [here]
• assignment operator: [1]
• [use of const]
• [Templates]
• /References -- A reference is a variable that refers to another variable. References are like pointers, but they don't need to be dereferenced using "*ptr".
• [Scope] -- when you declare a variable, where can you reference it and for how long does it exist?
• [Dynamic memory allocation] - the "new" and "delete" operators for allocating memory.