Brilliant - A must have C++ book for the student/developer

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	• Effective C++: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Design (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley ... Scott Meyers Addison-Wesley Professional, 1997 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 132 reviews view larger image
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Effective and Essential C++ Reading

This book is well written. Meyers explains many C++ details that are either badly explained or not explained at all in other books. His focus is always on productive and practical techniques and he doesn't sit on the fence: he gives you the benefit of clearly well thought out advice. If you want to understand C++ better and if you want to understand the design trade offs, for example, between inheritance, aggregation, and templates, this is a good place to look for help. This is one of those rare books that you will want to read more than once---as well as to refer to regularly. Highly recommended.

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A Must Have for ALL C++ Developers

One of my favorite books. It has so many hit home points about great C++ programming that if you code in C++ it should be mandatory for you to read this.

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50 gems every good C++ programmer should know by heart

The subtitle of the book '50 specific ways to improve your programs and designs' is a pretty good summary of what this book is all about. It's is very well structured, the table of contents summarizes each point in one sentence, together with the extensive and complete index it's very easy to use as a quick reference. But thanks to Meyers clear and oftentimes amusing style of writing it's also a joy to read from cover to cover. You'd be a fool if you didn't anyways, since you'd miss out on lots of excellent source code examples and very well stated arguments for each of the tips. Some of the tips may seem obvious, like item 5 which reads: "use the same form in corresponding uses of new and delete". Others like item 1: "prefer const and inline to #define" might seem pretty alien to seasoned C programmers/preprocessor magicians or performance freaks. After reading the author's arguments for his points you'll have a hard time defending your position, though (in the unlikely case that you are still not convinced, that is). Meyers does explicitly encourage critical thinking over blind following of the rules though, and in the tradition of Donald Knuth has promised a reward for every error discovered in his work.
How universally accepted these tips have become you can guess form reading the C++ newsgroups or noticing that they have been fully integrated into automatic source checking tools such as gimpel's PC-Lint. Professional programmers should know these 50 gems by heart - buy the book!

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THE Coding Standards

Quite simply, you shouldn't be programming if you haven't read this, and the two other books in the "Effective..." series. Meyers is a complete guru when it comes to coding (even the GNU GCC compiler writers seem to agree - check the available settings, one of them is specific to Meyers' works). What makes Meyers stand out from the crowd, however, is that he is extraordinarily readable. Often witty, but always getting his point across, these books are fine to be read anywhere, rather than simply as a reference manual like many other "bibles" are suited to. My only criticisms are that a: sometimes his attempts at wit can come across as ever so slightly patronising, and b: really Effective C++ and More Effective C++ should have been combined into one book for the price that these are charged at, and c: he has really, really, REALLY bad hair, and the photo on the back makes me groan with sympathy. These minor grumps aside, these are the best books on coding practice you will get, and every single coder out there that thinks he knows his stuff should buy these just to be shown how wrong they in fact are. Superb.

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Brilliant - A must have C++ book for the student/developer

Extremely well written C++ book; full of well argued, well presented, well discussed relevant C++ topics.
Both the student and the professional developer will benefit from this book. A must for the personal and the corporate book shelf.

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