Introduction to Programming with C++ (3rd Edition)
Y. Daniel Liangis currently a Yamacraw professor of software engineering in the School of Computing at Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, Georgia.  Dr. Liang earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of  Oklahoma in 1991, and an MS and BS in Computer Science  from Fudan University in Shanghai, China, in 1986 and 1983. Prior to joining Armstrong,  he was an associate professor in computer science at Purdue University in Fort Wayne, where he twice received the Excellence in Research award.Dr. Liang was trained in theoretical computer science.  He has published in SIAM Journal on Computing,   Discrete Applied Mathematics,  Acta Informatics, and Information Processing Letters.  He is the author of more than thirty books. His popular computer science texts are widely adopted in the world.Dr. Liang was elected a  Java Champion in 2005 by Sun Microsystems. He has given lectures on Java internationally.