Learning STL/Boost

Andy_F_60

I need to learn about STL and Boost. Any suggestions for books, tutorials whatever? Many thanks.

Andy

OriginalGriff

You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)

Andy_F_60

Fortunately not! :-D Just trying to save a bit of searching time.

Rage

Check the CP articles, for instance: An Introductory STL tutorial[^] An Introduction to Boost[^] For more, you may search on the article page[^], or ask in the Q&A section[^] What are you actually doing with such a technology ? This is so old that even I used to use it !

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

Andy_F_60

Thanks for the links, I will check them out. Don't know yet what it's for, it's somebody else's choice.

mikepwilson

this [^] is pretty nice for the STL. Something about the way it's organized really hit my head right. No idea about boost though; that became ubiquitous after I switched to perl for most day to day work.

megaadam

Scott Meyers is an excellent writer: Effctive STL [^] But if you really want cutting edge you should learn more of C++11/14. Some of the Boost stuff is sooner or later becomming obsolete... For example lambdas are in Boost but they are a part of the new language standard. Giving you much niftier syntax. Get a nice overview from Wkipedia on C++11. And read more on the blogs of Scott Meyers and Herb Sutter. Good Luck!

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Nemanja Trifunovic

"STL" is just the C++ Standard Library. Any recent book on C++ should cover it in depth but the ultimate book on the topic is The C++ Standard Library - A Tutorial and Reference[^] by Nicolai M. Josuttis. Look for the first edition of the book if you want only C++ 98 Standard - otherwise get the second edition. As for Boost, just look at their web site: Boost Documentation[^]

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Paul M Watt

Welcome to the club!

megaadam wrote:

Scott Meyers is an excellent writer:
Effctive STL
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I concur. Also as a summary of the book, std::vector and std::string will be the container you want for 90% of your tasks. Learn those and your well on your way. Then learn what's in <algorithms> You will also need to learn about std::shared_ptr and std::weak_ptr which are not in this book. But there are plenty of places on the web to learn about it. http://www.amazon.com/The-Standard-Library-Tutorial-Reference/dp/0201379260[^] This is a good in depth reference book, but it was written in 1999.