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Must have
3 June 2012
I've now bought all of Scott Meyers' books, and if you have anything to do with C++ then I strongly recommend you do the same.
Frankly, they are a must-have collection that describe the best way of writing C++ and using the STL. If only they'd been available all those years ago when I first learnt C++ , then I could have saved myself much grief!
Scott's style is very informal and readable. Not only does he make difficult topics easy to understand, but he does so in an interesting and accessible manner.
It's worth pointing out that these books are not intended for learning C++ from scratch, rather they are intended to show you the best ways of applying your knowledge in solving many common programming problems. This STL book focuses on getting the most out of the standard library functions, and avoiding the many pitfalls and misconceptions. All the items are explained with useful code examples (some of which may well find their way into your own libraries of most used functions/templates). Reading this book, not only do you fully understand the STL functions and how to use them properly, but also when to use them and why one may be much better suited to your particular task than the other (similar) functions.
In short, buy it (and his companion books)!
Frankly, they are a must-have collection that describe the best way of writing C++ and using the STL. If only they'd been available all those years ago when I first learnt C++ , then I could have saved myself much grief!
Scott's style is very informal and readable. Not only does he make difficult topics easy to understand, but he does so in an interesting and accessible manner.
It's worth pointing out that these books are not intended for learning C++ from scratch, rather they are intended to show you the best ways of applying your knowledge in solving many common programming problems. This STL book focuses on getting the most out of the standard library functions, and avoiding the many pitfalls and misconceptions. All the items are explained with useful code examples (some of which may well find their way into your own libraries of most used functions/templates). Reading this book, not only do you fully understand the STL functions and how to use them properly, but also when to use them and why one may be much better suited to your particular task than the other (similar) functions.
In short, buy it (and his companion books)!
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Top critical review
uses colours
22 January 2011
this being the kindle version, the use of colour in diagrams and code should have been changed to some other system as the coloured elements just turm ouut ever so slightly paler which is not clear in many examples. i would expect more effort to adapt something advertised as a "kindle edition"
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3 June 2012
I've now bought all of Scott Meyers' books, and if you have anything to do with C++ then I strongly recommend you do the same.
Frankly, they are a must-have collection that describe the best way of writing C++ and using the STL. If only they'd been available all those years ago when I first learnt C++ , then I could have saved myself much grief!
Scott's style is very informal and readable. Not only does he make difficult topics easy to understand, but he does so in an interesting and accessible manner.
It's worth pointing out that these books are not intended for learning C++ from scratch, rather they are intended to show you the best ways of applying your knowledge in solving many common programming problems. This STL book focuses on getting the most out of the standard library functions, and avoiding the many pitfalls and misconceptions. All the items are explained with useful code examples (some of which may well find their way into your own libraries of most used functions/templates). Reading this book, not only do you fully understand the STL functions and how to use them properly, but also when to use them and why one may be much better suited to your particular task than the other (similar) functions.
In short, buy it (and his companion books)!
Frankly, they are a must-have collection that describe the best way of writing C++ and using the STL. If only they'd been available all those years ago when I first learnt C++ , then I could have saved myself much grief!
Scott's style is very informal and readable. Not only does he make difficult topics easy to understand, but he does so in an interesting and accessible manner.
It's worth pointing out that these books are not intended for learning C++ from scratch, rather they are intended to show you the best ways of applying your knowledge in solving many common programming problems. This STL book focuses on getting the most out of the standard library functions, and avoiding the many pitfalls and misconceptions. All the items are explained with useful code examples (some of which may well find their way into your own libraries of most used functions/templates). Reading this book, not only do you fully understand the STL functions and how to use them properly, but also when to use them and why one may be much better suited to your particular task than the other (similar) functions.
In short, buy it (and his companion books)!
2 December 2018
A very useful book, I put only 4 star because it should be updated with c++11, c++14 and c++17.
Still a must have
Still a must have
13 February 2013
The book content is great, as testified by many reviews online. Nothing to add there and I'm already getting some "aha!" moments by reading it.
However, please note that this edition is a cheap reprint made with very soft paper and not so crisp character typesetting. I quote from page 3:
"Published by Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd., licensees of Pearson Education in South Asia. [...] Digitally Printed in India by Repro India Ltd. in the year of 2013."
This is not a major problem, apart from the paper and ink being of the cheap quality and some occasional lines looking oddly blurred (this does not happen often in my copy - maybe a dozen times overall). If you care about aesthetics and durability of this text in your bookshelf for many years to come, consider investing the extra money for a European or American edition. Otherwise this version will be just fine.
However, please note that this edition is a cheap reprint made with very soft paper and not so crisp character typesetting. I quote from page 3:
"Published by Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd., licensees of Pearson Education in South Asia. [...] Digitally Printed in India by Repro India Ltd. in the year of 2013."
This is not a major problem, apart from the paper and ink being of the cheap quality and some occasional lines looking oddly blurred (this does not happen often in my copy - maybe a dozen times overall). If you care about aesthetics and durability of this text in your bookshelf for many years to come, consider investing the extra money for a European or American edition. Otherwise this version will be just fine.
11 April 2017
Books by Scott Mayers are the best reading material available about C++. I keep the whole series on my desk as a reference.
It's huge fun to read, as well.
It's huge fun to read, as well.
8 May 2014
I did worry that this book could just be a list of how-to's, but it is much more than this.
The 50 items, link together well, and you learn lots of real-world gotchas that are like golden nuggets.
Scott writes great books, so check his Effective C++ books as well.
The 50 items, link together well, and you learn lots of real-world gotchas that are like golden nuggets.
Scott writes great books, so check his Effective C++ books as well.
2 October 2011
It is easy to get started with STL, and make some code that works. Problem is that STL is actually so efficient, that you may not notice that you do something wrong. There is no such thing as a default container to handle all problems that involves a collection of objects. STL is fast, and this book explains how to make correct use of STL, pressing all the juice out of the lemon.
25 July 2016
Good Product - arrived quickly
11 January 2014
This book is typical learn by example book where author teaches you how to use STL.
So instead of boring systematic approach author concentrates on regular usage and operations upon STL. Every C++ professional should have it on his desk so for example when you need to delete container you just open a book and literary copy/paste content.
Despite it's missing C++11 standard it's still valuable reading.
So instead of boring systematic approach author concentrates on regular usage and operations upon STL. Every C++ professional should have it on his desk so for example when you need to delete container you just open a book and literary copy/paste content.
Despite it's missing C++11 standard it's still valuable reading.
