James K. Peckol of the University of Washington guides viewers through the C++ programming language in this 12-part, 4-video presentation, based on the second edition of the book by H. M. Deitel and P. J. Deitel. This program introduces the object paradi gm, encapsulation, data extraction, memory allocation and information hiding. Study guide available; includes book, cd-rom (system requirements: Windows 95 or higher, Solaris 2.5 or higher, 20MB hard disk space, 16MB RAM, 4x cd-rom drive), user guide.