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Summary: Not organized - Confused mix of material
Review: This book is called "A language and library reference".As a reference book, I think this book falls far short. The material is randomly thrown together throughout the book. Sure, it's in there, somewhere, but can you find it? The library reference portion is decent containing a very comprehensive overview of the different headers and classes. I've little problem with this section. If you only need a C++ library reference this is a good book. The language material is quite poor in my opinion. While the book is not geared towards the beginner, finding a simple explanation of say virtual destructors is impossible. You can find virtual destructors in the index but when you turn to the page where it's listed you find it completely lacking. There's a complete lack of explanation, depth, or demonstration. I can't recommend this book except for the library reference. I'm not sure if there's a better C++ reference book out there but I sure hope so...
Rating:
Summary: Not organized - Confused mix of material
Review: This book is called "A language and library reference". As a reference book, I think this book falls far short. The material is randomly thrown together throughout the book. Sure, it's in there, somewhere, but can you find it? The library reference portion is decent containing a very comprehensive overview of the different headers and classes. I've little problem with this section. If you only need a C++ library reference this is a good book. The language material is quite poor in my opinion. While the book is not geared towards the beginner, finding a simple explanation of say virtual destructors is impossible. You can find virtual destructors in the index but when you turn to the page where it's listed you find it completely lacking. There's a complete lack of explanation, depth, or demonstration. I can't recommend this book except for the library reference. I'm not sure if there's a better C++ reference book out there but I sure hope so...
Rating:
Summary: Not organized - Confused mix of material
Review: This book is called "A language and library reference". As a reference book, I think this book falls far short. The material is randomly thrown together throughout the book. Sure, it's in there, somewhere, but can you find it? The library reference portion is decent containing a very comprehensive overview of the different headers and classes. I've little problem with this section. If you only need a C++ library reference this is a good book. The language material is quite poor in my opinion. While the book is not geared towards the beginner, finding a simple explanation of say virtual destructors is impossible. You can find virtual destructors in the index but when you turn to the page where it's listed you find it completely lacking. There's a complete lack of explanation, depth, or demonstration. I can't recommend this book except for the library reference. I'm not sure if there's a better C++ reference book out there but I sure hope so...
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Summary: Very useful
Review: This is an excellent reference designed to give you precise definitions and usage for the C++ language features and library according to the C++ Standard. Unless you are a novice, it will save you time. In the past, when I needed to lookup something, I used to gladly dive into the Stroustrup's "C++ Programming Language" or Josuttis's "The C++ Standard Library". While indispensable and authoritative, these volumes are *NOT* designed for easy reference work; reading them takes time, and what should have been a 30-second lookup inevitably turned into a 30-minute reading. The "C++ In A Nutshell" helps to solve this problem, in addition to putting all the relevant resources at your fingertips in one volume.
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Summary: Excellent book for professional programmers
Review: This is an indispensible book for folks who work in C++ all day long. It concisely presents lots of information about the language and was clearly a very carefully editted book. It's just packed with information. I like the standard library reference best, as it was written to be compact yet complete. A nice touch is the formatting of the method names in bold, letting you find the wheat in the chaff. If I could have only one book on C++, this would be it. It assumes you already know the language, so don't buy it to learn C++ from.
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