[ale] looking for a good C++ book for an experienced C programmer.

[Charles Shapiro]

Two books should be on every C++ programmer's desk:

The C++ Programming Language, 3rd Edition (Bjarne Stroustrup, Addison
Wesley, 1997)
Design and Evolution of C++ ( Bjarne Stroustrup, Addison Wesley, 1994)

I went from C to C++ in the late '90's, learning OO programming
through the process. The two books I found
most helpful were:

C++ The Core Language ( Doug Brown, Gregory Satir, O'Reilly Books, 1995)
Effective C++: Fifty Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Design
( Scott Meyers, Addison-Wesley, 1998)


If I were gonna do a lot of C++ today I'd probably add a book on the
STL.  OTOH, I did a pretty big C++ project a few months back and found
that the library I was using was specifically not compatible with STL,
although it had some substitute classes to use in its place.

-- CHS

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:48 -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:
>> One thing that would be cool is a book on how to do things in C++ that
>> you would do in C.
>>
>> For example, I still use stdio.h in C++ when I could be using iostream
>> but I know so much about stdio.
>
> Well, you should "#include <cstdio>" unless you have a really old C++
> compiler, but whatever... :-)
>
> C++'s standard library *is* rather nice.  You can do all sorts of things
> with streams and files and strings even that are just plain natural
> feeling.  That said, I have the same gripe about C++ as I do about C:
> there's an awful lot of repetition because you have to create header
> files yourself.  It would seem logical that something as powerful as
> today's C compilers could use decorations on
> structures/functions/classes/methods/typedefs/whatever to build
> the .h/.hxx file for you...
>
>        --- Mike
>
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