C++ has some confusing rules that automatically call constructors, destructors, initializers, and assignment functions. Siegfried Heintze describes 20 situations you must consider and why understanding all of them is crucial to attaining C++ mastery.

This article looks at ways to enhance the user-provider model to accommodate class users who want to create their own classes specific to their application domain when their class library is unavailable or incomplete. It also focuses on how this style of programming allows class users to create their own simple classes without a class library.

C++'s cryptic syntax and complicated declaration and initialization semantics can make construction of all but the simplest classes a nightmare. In the final chapter of his three-part tutorial on class construction, Siegfried Heintze shows how to create classes faster, cleaner and more easily than ever before.

This article enhances an older concept of reference count objects, reintroducing the notion of "copy on modification." An implementation of the concept in C++ is discussed and contrasted against similar work in C.

In the first of a two-part series, Siegfried Heintze presents an alternative approach to learning C++ that lets you exploit some of the language's highly touted features without having to create custom user-defined types.

In the second part of this 2-part series, Siegfried Heintze covers the role many developers play in the world of object-oriented development: the class user.

This article identifies some semantic gaps in the C programming language and discusses bridging that gap using C++. The article focuses on the unique problems presented by assignment and subscripting in C++ class design, particularly when an array "element" isn't a proper object in its own right.