Re: [ALACPP] new books

[Kevin Scaldeferri <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 02:16 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 14:05, Jon Stewart wrote:
>
> > _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.

Hmm... I think that depends on how you read Modern C++ Design.  
Honestly, it's usually close enough to the meeting time, and I'm 
usually getting tired enough of reading, that the final sections of 
each chapter which deal with the peculiarities of templates get glossed 
over.  I suppose if I actually had occasion to use this stuff, then the 
details of syntax would be more important to me.

> > _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.

I'm fine with graph theory.  Of course, I also have a degree in math, 
so I might not be typical :-)


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