Practical use of the STL can be learned in an afternoon. Just focus on the Big Four: string, map, vector, and unordered_map (last one is in in c++11 only). The

Practical use of the STL can be learned in an afternoon. Just focus on the Big Four: string, map, vector, and unordered_map (last one is in in c++11 only). The venerable original SGI document should take you quite a ways: http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/table_of_contents.html http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/table_of_contents.html Good luck, in case you decide to do this.