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Looking around the site, there's a free pdf chapter available via the publisher link (Chapter 12, Containers). https://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/978013681

Looking around the site, there's a free pdf chapter available via the publisher link (Chapter 12, Containers). https://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780136816485/samplepages/9780136816485_Sample.pdf https://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780136816485/samplep... It's worth comparing that to one of the more popular free C++ resources, learncpp: https://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial/container-classes/ https://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial/container-classes/ The 'advice' section in the Tour excerpt is perhaps the most useful part. The learncpp excerpt is more about writing your own container class - note that many would consider the examples outdated with lots of raw new and deletes, but others would say, how else would you learn why uniq_ptr was introduced? (learncpp covers that later). As far as how containers are allocated, C has malloc, calloc and free; new and delete in 'C with classes C++' are wrappers around those functions, and modern C++ has unique and shared pointers as wrappers around new and delete in turn. Actually learning modern C++ in depth thus seems to require going through that whole chain, including gaining a solid understanding of stack vs. heap, and the benefit is improved performance relative to languages like Python and JavaScript. There's a notion that one can prototype in Python and then just translate that easily to modern C++, using idioms like ranges, without necessarily knowing the history of C++. It's an interesting idea, seems to be fairly popular, but I'd guess you'd still need to have that foundation in C to make it really work well.

CamperBob2 4y ago
There's a notion that one can prototype in Python and then just translate that easily to modern C++ That was my first thought on looking at the github link posted by waynecochran above: if I'm going to write C++ code that looks like that, why don't I just use Python or a similar language? What exactly is C++ doing for Wayne here? It's not going to be much slower if it all, given that all he's doing is invoking higher-level abstractions. Another thought: again, given the abstractions and high-level resources that C++ programmers will be coming to rely on in the years ahead, someone could "just" write a back end that translates a cleaner high-level language like Python to modern C++ for compilation and optimization.
- pjmlp 4y ago
  Performance, and not having two languages to worry about. Apparently that Python translator is still to happen, given how many keep using native libraries written in C, C++ and Fortran. And cython isn't that great, given that it requires manual tuning.

CamperBob2 4y ago

There's a notion that one can prototype in Python and then just translate that easily to modern C++ That was my first thought on looking at the github link posted by waynecochran above: if I'm going to write C++ code that looks like that, why don't I just use Python or a similar language? What exactly is C++ doing for Wayne here? It's not going to be much slower if it all, given that all he's doing is invoking higher-level abstractions. Another thought: again, given the abstractions and high-level resources that C++ programmers will be coming to rely on in the years ahead, someone could "just" write a back end that translates a cleaner high-level language like Python to modern C++ for compilation and optimization.

pjmlp 4y ago
Performance, and not having two languages to worry about. Apparently that Python translator is still to happen, given how many keep using native libraries written in C, C++ and Fortran. And cython isn't that great, given that it requires manual tuning.