This short ebook is intended to make it easy for anyone with at least some background in Python to transition to programming in C++.
Portions of this book began as Java for Python Programmers by Brad Miller. These sections were translated to C++ by Jan Pearce and a team of excellent Berea College students in 2018 and early 2019. Other portions of this book began as web pages written by Jan Pearce as support for a Berea College C++ programming class. Still other sections were newly written by Jan Pearce for this ebook.
Special acknowledgement is due to Jesse Walker-Schadler who while just a student in the Berea College Data Structures course had a vision of making graphics in C++ as easy as they are in Python both in terms of both syntax and installations. Over the course of two summers, he realized this vision with the creation in the open source CTurtle library which provides all of the C++ interactive graphics in this textbook.
- The generic version of the original runestone version book is located at https://runestone.academy/ns/books/published/cpp4python/index.html
- Instructors who wish to use this book go to https://runestone.academy/ and make an account using cpp4python as the base book.
- The PreTeXt version of this book is available as cpp4py as well, but it is an alpha version and there are currently labelling errors as of August 2023. Use at your own risk.
- Those wishing to report bugs or suggest improvements can do so at https://github.com/pearcej/cpp4python/issues.
C++ for Python Programmers by Jan Pearce and Brad Miller is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.