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Complete and comprehensive coverage is given of the full ANSI/ISO C++ standard.Amazon.com Review
Programming with the C++ Standard Library can certainly be difficult, but Nicolai Josuttis’s The C++ Standard Library provides one of the best available guides to using the built-in features of C++ effectively. The C++ Standard Library provides plenty of default functionality in the form of the Standard Template Library (STL) for containers (like vectors a… More >>
The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference
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#1 by Amit Parate on April 19, 2010 - 2:36 am
This book was delivered to me before time and also paid a decent price for it.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by X. GU on April 19, 2010 - 3:28 am
English is not my native language, but even I found the English translation of this book is poor.
Sometimes the author tried to explain something that should be helpful, but he stopped right before the point that you could fully understand it.
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by Dominique Decouchant on April 19, 2010 - 4:43 am
The book is really perfect and is exactly I hoped.
However, the main and only bad critic I want to highlight is the shipping.
The package was very light and the book cover arrived damaged: the corner were maltreated.
No really, only a box including 2 plastic bubbles is not serious and totally insufficient to correctly protect such kind of nice books.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Espen Overaae on April 19, 2010 - 5:52 am
In my view, this book tries to be both tutorial and reference but fails at both. I can find better, more complete, and more accessible reference material in 10 seconds with google. Whenever I open this book to find information about some aspect of the STL, I end up googling for the same information a few minutes later.
The examples are near useless. They are all minimal examples of basic functionality and offer no help in using the library for real-life tasks. They do show you which header files to include, which is a plus.
Hash maps are completely left out of the book. While not officially part of the stl, they are still a significant part of it, and one that requires more explaining than the rest.
I am to understand the +5 reviews were because there are no better books on this subject, similarily my +2 review is because there are not enough negative reviews of this book.
Rating: 2 / 5
#5 by BENONE IONESCU on April 19, 2010 - 6:36 am
The author has wrote a book that presents C++ standard library to the average programmer with plenty of samples that show how to implement each concept step by step.
Rating: 5 / 5