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| The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference (ISBN: 0201379260) |
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List Price: $57.99
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Release Date: 12 August, 1999
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (Hardcover)
Sales Rank: 3,551
Author: Nicolai M. Josuttis
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| Very helpful to learn, understand, and use C++ library | |
Perhaps this book is the best one to help you to mature all of the C++ huge standard (ISO) library.
It covers both the library and its underlying concepts pretty well and completely, with useful examples. This book has helped me to discover very interesting things about the C++ library that have boosted my effectiveness, while at the same time it has allowed me to reach a level of understanding of the library where I can extend it really nice, for instance, defining my own containers and iterators.
It has minor defects, though. Still, you can use it as reference. For example, the index is too small IMHO, and the documentation for routines, classes, templates, etc., surprisingly miss their exact prototypes, so, sometimes you must guess the right types of parameters and the stuff.
In very few words, "It is really worth the price". -= Ed =-
| A must have for serious C++ programmers | |
I find this book, along with Stroustrup's "The C++ programming language" 95% of what one needs to program C++, effectively using the Standard Template Library. This book is organized excellently, with various subjects thoroughly covered and explained. It is suitable to be read as a tutorial, but is of much a better use as a reference, and is very much suited for that, with numerous tables and quick references allowing to find what you want quickly and efficiently. I also paid attention to the excellent index of this book, which never left me un-answered on an STL related question when I needed a quick ref/example to solve a problem. The examples in the book are good and very well explained, leaves place to ask for more (examples) in the next edition :)
| THE reference for the standard C++ library | |
The book is subtitled "a tutorial and reference". Let it be said that it is more of a reference. There are several concise examples that explain how to use the features, but the writing style is fairly terse. This book is an excellent supplement to books such as Bjarne Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language". The discussion about how to use the standard library is more detailed than other books. The reason why I am giving this book five stars is because it is the best reference on the standard library that I have found anywhere. The examples are both minimal and complete -- just enough code to explain how the features should be used. I wouldn't say that this is a book you should have on your shelf -- it belongs on your desk.
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