STL Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))

By Ray Lischner

The STL Pocket Reference describes the functions, classes, and templates in that part of the C++ standard library often referred to as the Standard Template Library (STL). The STL encompasses containers, iterators, algorithms, and function objects, which collectively represent one of the most important and widely used subsets of standard library functionality. The C++ standard library, even the subset known as the STL, is vast. It's next to impossible to work with the STL without some sort of reference at your side to remind you of template parameters, function invocations, return types--indeed, the entire myriad of details you need to know in order to use the STL effectively and get work done. You need a memory-aid. Books that cover the standard library and the STL tend to be quite heavy and large, describing each aspect of the STL in detail. Such books are great when you're not familiar with the library, but get in the way when you simply need to remind yourself of a function name, or the order in which you pass arguments to a function. Programmers familiar with the STL need a small, lightweight memory-aid. That's what the STL Pocket Reference is. It's small, lightweight, and chock-full of information that you can take in at a glance, so you can get on with your work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B008PGW5EU
• ISBN13: 9780596005566
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.4" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

I love these things

I love these little pocket references, since my new job I use custom container classes, but when I was using the STL this was a wonderful reference. I actually like these booklets better than Microsoft's electronic documentation, but Apple's XCode documentation system is still faster than paper.

Best reference for the C++ STL yet!

This small but succinct reference book is all that I wanted in an STL pocket guide and more! I am using it today while teaching a beginning STL class. It is more useful to me than the many textbooks I have been reading on the subject. GO GO O'Reilly! Your materials are excellent for programmers.

A Must for the Software Developer Generalist

The O'Reilly Pocket Reference series serves the need of software developers to quickly lookup how to code something that they don't do every day. The formula is quite strict. Like all of these books, this book is a hybrid of introduction, cookbook, and reference in a package that is small enough to easily fit several dozen on your bookshelf. What's good about the STL Pocket Reference is that it provides succinct descriptions of some very abstract concepts that are the lingua franca when dealing with the Structured Template Library. What's missing here is more sample code.