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i guess maybe now is a good time to repeat this request - does anyone know of a good, recent book that describes how to write correct, modern c++ using the late

i guess maybe now is a good time to repeat this request - does anyone know of a good, recent book that describes how to write correct, modern c++ using the latest standards and staying with the subset of the language that expert users recognise as elegant and powerful?

pjmlp 13y ago
Check Tour of C++, recently published by Bjarne.
- sanderjd 13y ago
  Wow, thanks, I'd been looking for this too, and somehow had failed to come across that one. Sounds perfect.
jbeja 13y ago
Sams Teach Yourself CPP One Hour a Day 7th and CPP Primer 5th
- NAFV_P 13y ago
  I think I have an older edition of that book, and it doesn't cover recursion. I would not recommend it for a novice programmer, other than picking up basic syntax, since it doesn't give anything substantial to sink your teeth into. The last C++ text that I came across was "C++ In Action: Industrial Strength Programming" by Bartosz Milewski. It was first published over a dozen years ago, so it will have dated a bit. In the first chapter the author explains objects using the usual taxonomist analogy, but also explains it in terms of the concept of scope. That first chapter alone gave me more insight than most of the SAMS text.
  - adamnemecek 13y ago
    I don't think that recursion is really idiomatic in C++.
    - NAFV_P 13y ago
      > I don't think that recursion is really idiomatic in C++. Ok, I think you could throw that at C as well. As a general programming concept it's quite idiomatic. All I know is that fucking up recursion is just as easy as fucking up iteration.
      - adamnemecek 13y ago
        Well it's not really idiomatic in C either. And it's not about fucking it up but about performance. Even if you do tail recursion, it will still be slower.
polskibus 13y ago
I always recommend Effective C++ by Scott Meyers. It does not cover C++11 but is still relevant to anyone wanting to learn the good c++.
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- jtfrench 13y ago
  I would have to second that. Scott's book is great (and he's a fellow Brown alum)
dman 13y ago
Tour of c++.

pjmlp 13y ago

Check Tour of C++, recently published by Bjarne.

sanderjd 13y ago
Wow, thanks, I'd been looking for this too, and somehow had failed to come across that one. Sounds perfect.

jbeja 13y ago

Sams Teach Yourself CPP One Hour a Day 7th and CPP Primer 5th

NAFV_P 13y ago
I think I have an older edition of that book, and it doesn't cover recursion. I would not recommend it for a novice programmer, other than picking up basic syntax, since it doesn't give anything substantial to sink your teeth into. The last C++ text that I came across was "C++ In Action: Industrial Strength Programming" by Bartosz Milewski. It was first published over a dozen years ago, so it will have dated a bit. In the first chapter the author explains objects using the usual taxonomist analogy, but also explains it in terms of the concept of scope. That first chapter alone gave me more insight than most of the SAMS text.
- adamnemecek 13y ago
  I don't think that recursion is really idiomatic in C++.
  - NAFV_P 13y ago
    > I don't think that recursion is really idiomatic in C++. Ok, I think you could throw that at C as well. As a general programming concept it's quite idiomatic. All I know is that fucking up recursion is just as easy as fucking up iteration.
    - adamnemecek 13y ago
      Well it's not really idiomatic in C either. And it's not about fucking it up but about performance. Even if you do tail recursion, it will still be slower.

polskibus 13y ago

I always recommend Effective C++ by Scott Meyers. It does not cover C++11 but is still relevant to anyone wanting to learn the good c++.

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jtfrench 13y ago
I would have to second that. Scott's book is great (and he's a fellow Brown alum)

dman 13y ago

Tour of c++.