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Summary: Excellent
Review: Excellent book. Examples are simple and straight to the point. This book is readable and covers many topics. If you want to learn the C standard library and STLs you will not find a better book.
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Summary: Excellent reference
Review: I've had this book for over a year now, and it is the best
C++ reference I've found. No, it doesn't cover the *language*
basics, but understanding the C++ standard library is every
bit as important. It has excellent examples of code usage
and explanations for most topics.
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Summary: Long live Josuttis
Review: This book is indeed the very best of it's kind. Read it alongwith the "Effective STL" by Scot M. I read it that way and found it very much rewarding for all my projects
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Summary: An Unparalled C++ STL Reference
Review: Hi.Wow! I have never seen a better C++ STL book. This book is packed with just about everything the STL has to offer. Nicolai Josuttis presents everything about the STL from constructors to functions and programming techniques for all containers. From containers to algorithms; and from strings to numeric, the author goes over everything! Sometimes I feel as though Josuttis helped develop the STL. I believe this is a must have C++ STL reference for all C++ programmers. Kuphryn
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Summary: The best reference book
Review: This is the best reference book. The Author describes the topics in a simple and clean way. The examples are easy to understand and provide enough information. This is the only reference book, I found, that you can go straight to a specific topic and find enough information to make your code working without any previous STL knowledge or reading previous Chapters.
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Summary: Complete, yet straightforward
Review: Containing lots of examples and being well-indexed this is the ultimate reference to STL plus streams, strings and all the other Standard Library stuff.
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Summary: The best book on C++ lib
Review: This is the best book on C++ lib. I was doing a Software Engineering course, and this book helped me so much in implementing the methods and algorithms. A definite must if you want to do C++. However, you shouldn't look at this book unless you have C++ How to program as the C++ How to Program will help you the basics of C++, then to do the advanced stuff, the C++ lib comes to the rescue.
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Summary: Personal Favorite
Review: This review is being written many many moons after I have purchased it. I have found myself referencing it again and again. I bought this book to help me get comfortable with STL when ready to start utilizing more advanced features of C++. I found this book helpful in so many ways relating to specific functions of my job, personal persuit of learning, and an overall complete reference. This book played the largest involvement in me utilizing the STL more effectively. I can't imagine a C++ programmer that doesn't have this book. Definitely a must have.
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Summary: Excellent reference, mediocre tutorial
Review: What's lacking: practicality as a tutorial. Needs more sample code, especially with CUSTOM non-trivial functors/predicates. In real life you will NOT be able to use the STL as presented in the book, you'll need to add a lot of custom code. Breymann's book does a (marginally) better job in that respect, get it in addition to this one if you can afford both. This is a good book and it's excellent as a reference, but it's become excessively glamorous, whereas imo its seemingly overwhelming success is due more to the dearth of similar books than to its own singular quality -- it can easily be improved. Also (nitpicking): index needs to be expanded. Much hope for a new edition, but for now, it is probably the best there is, a must for a C++ programmer who wants to stay current.
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Summary: Terrific as a guide and a reference
Review: Few books manage to excel as both introductory guidebooks and as everyday references. This book is one of them. This one book is all you need to learn to leverage the power of the C++ standard library in all of your code.
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