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Pros
This is a fabulous book for learning the advanced capabilities of c++ so youcan be as expressive and creative as youwant. The topics covered are very beneficial to any serious c++ programmer or anyone wishing to become one. Next to the c++ template bi... Read More
Bruce does a masterful job of building the readers up so they are able to gradually yet thoroughly assimilate the subject matter. They do a pretty good job at demystifying and motivating it, too.
A container class describes an object that holds other objects. The key by reading this chapter is to portray and teach efficient techniques to common problems using the generic container classes. Templates are generally a difficult topics to cover an... Read More
Cons
The book lacks the output. This is really bad because urses need to see the ouput to verify him/her thinking. This chapter is also outdated.
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Quality
Not only do they teach the fundamentals of the language itself and the standard template library but they manage to imbue reade... Read More
The authors have shown great skill in taking in the voluminous literature of c templates and boiling it down into comprehensive... Read More
Both volumes are printed using extremely thin flimsy paper
The first law of technical documentation states that34the more complicated the subject the less will be written about it and th... Read More
Competitiveness
The advanced topics in this book multiple inheritance runtime type identification design patterns and concurrent programming ar... Read More
Concurrency and concurrent programming is one of the more difficult things to do in c
The advantages of threads ability to run multiple tasks concurrently very low context switching relative to processes allow bet... Read More
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- This product had a total of 45 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 19 2024.
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No doubt a very nice book to have in hand
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I do have one caveat but its unrelated to the actual content of the book
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Both volumes are printed using extremely thin flimsy paper
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Despite weighing in at a lengthy 806 pages practical programming is nevertheless about twothirds the size of a number of 600700 page volumes on my shelves
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This wouldnt be a serious complaint except it throws into question the longterm durability of the book as a reference manual
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When it comes down to it one would really need two books on c
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Just when you think you know all about exceptions the authors throw you a curve ball with 34exception specification34 and how to handle the 34unexpected34
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You are blown away by the true control that c gives you
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