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Posted by Nick Cash   USA  (626 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Mon 19 Jan 2004 06:42 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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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   USA  (3,881 posts)  [Biography] bio   Moderator
Date Reply #1 on Mon 19 Jan 2004 10:16 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]

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   Australia  (18,770 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #2 on Tue 20 Jan 2004 10:04 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]

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

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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