C++ Gems: Programming Pearls from The C++ Report (SIGS Reference Library)

By: Lippman, Stan

Book Overview

Stan Lippman, former C++ Report Editor (and best-selling author), brings you pearls of wisdom for getting the most out of C++. This carefully selected collection covers the first seven years of the C++ Report, from January 1989 through December 1995. It presents the pinnacle of writing on C++ by renowned experts in the field, and is a must-read for today's C++ programmer. It contains tips, tricks, proven strategies, easy-to-follow techniques, and usable source code.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0135705819
• ISBN13: 9780135705810
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 628 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

Almost every article in there is still valid although it was written years a go. The greatest authors on OO programming and C++ edited by the GURU MARTIN, (Uncle Bob). If you consider yourself an OO P/A/D and C++ is of interest to you don't miss this book!! Oh and do yourself a favor get the more C++ gems too...

Definitely not C++ for Dummies

C++ has reached maturity and still doesn't know exactly what it wants to be. This makes C++ both difficult and rewarding. One can approach C++ as a medium for expressing programs, but the richer rewards come when C++ is approached as a medium for expressing design. C++ Gems is an admirable collection of papers by masters of the art of balancing design against pragmatism. For those who want a comforting guiding voice, Koenig's "Ruminations on C++" is probably a better choice. But for those who want to cut a wide swath over all that C++ offers, at the level where each advance poses as poses as many problems as it solves, C++ Gems is hard to beat.<P

The number ONE handbook to know how c++ really works

This book is excellent for a beginner and part time programmer. I especially appriciate the index, which I use frequently during programming to find out how it really works! The book covers the essential parts in c++ with a very good depth. This is the ONE book to use as handbook during c++ development to find out how c++ really works. I sometimes miss some more good examples to describe commands idears etc. Some programming experience and OO thinking is necessary to get the most out of the book.