Re: [ALACPP] new books

[Christopher Smith <x@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 14:05, Jon Stewart wrote:
> Here are some books I'd be interested in reading next; if you have other 
> suggestions, please make them known:
> 
> _The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference_ by Nicolai Josuttis
> 
> 	The definitive text for learning and using the STL.

All I really want to understand better about the STL would be
allocators, and thankfully it's never been enough of an issue for me to
tackle in depth.

> _C++ Templates: The Complete Guide_ by David Vandevoorde and Nicolai 
> Josuttis
> 
> 	How templates work, in detail.

My thinking is that Modern C++ Design pretty much requires you grok
templates pretty well already.

> _Exceptional C++_ by Herb Sutter
> 
> 	Exception safety and other gotchas', seemingly in the vein of 
> Scott Meyers.

This is a great book, as is the sequel. Might be a good study group book
because it's framed around Guru of the Week problems.

> _C++ Network Programming, Vol. 1: Mastering Complexity with ACE and 
> Patterns_ by Douglas Schmidt and Stephen Huston
> 
> 	An introduction to the ACE networking library, going over how to 
> write a portable, efficient networking layer.

I really like this idea, as if nothing else I need an excuse to learn
ACE.

> _Standard C++ IOStreams and Locales: Advanced Programmer's Guide and 
> Reference_ by Angelika Langer and Klaus Kreft
> 
> 	All you ever wanted to know about iostreams that other authors 
> were afraid to answer.

Okay... maybe I could stand to learn a bit more about locales. ;-)
Still, I'm finding the ICU more and more appealing, and it of course
implements it's own framework for this kind of stuff. ;-)

> _The Boost Graph Library_ by Lee, Lumsdaine, and Siek
> 
> 	Covers the Boost Graph Library, giving insight into the Boost 
> design philosophy, not to mention a refresher course in graph theory.

Got this book already, but stopped reading it because my problems
quickly moved out of the realm of graph theory. I'd be supportive of
going back to it and regroking the whole thing. My one caveat is that a
lot of the book is graph theory (or more importantly solving graph
theory problems with the library), which may not be of interest to
everyone.

--Chris
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