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➜ Whats a good STL book?
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| Posted by
| Nick Cash
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| Mon 19 Jan 2004 06:42 AM (UTC) |
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| Alright, well, I just got bored and read all of this stuff about STL, and now I'm interested. Like I did with C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, PHP and MySQL, I believe I'll start with a book. Which one would you reccomend? Or two? Or three? :)
Thanks. |
~Nick Cash
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| Posted by
| David Haley
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| Reply #1 on Mon 19 Jan 2004 10:16 AM (UTC) Amended on Tue 20 Jan 2004 04:11 PM (UTC) by David Haley
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| Nick took most of his stuff from the same book he recommended me, which is Josuttis's "C++ Standard Library- A tutorial and reference" or something like that.
Excellent, excellent book. However, it does assume that you know C++ quite well.
[edit to fix spelling of Josuttis's name. :)] |
David Haley aka Ksilyan
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #2 on Tue 20 Jan 2004 10:04 AM (UTC) Amended on Tue 20 Jan 2004 06:46 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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| The first book I would buy is:
The C++ Standard Library - A Tutorial and Reference
By Nicolai M. Josuttis
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-37926-0
Cover price: $US 59.99
This is indeed an excellent introduction (around 800 pages), and covers the various container types (lists, maps, vectors etc.) plus the algorithms (sort, etc.), function objects, strings and a whole lot of stuff.
There is also:
STL Tutorial and Reference Guide - C++ Programming with the Standard Template Library
By David R. Musser and Atul Saini
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-63398-1
Cover price: $US 44.95
This one is 400 pages. However if you have the Josuttis book I think it is not really necessary.
I also have:
Effective STL - 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of the Standard Template Library
By Scott Meyers
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-74962-9
Cover Price: $US 39.99
This has some interesting tips and covers some more obscure points (260 pages).
However I really recommend the Josuttis book first and foremost, and look at the other ones once you become more familiar with STL. |
- Nick Gammon
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