Scott Meyers

Interesting and useful selection of topics about programming in C++11 and C++14. Just what you would expect from reading the precursors. The chapter in the end about concurrency, however, seemed to be very shallow and badly researched. It looked as if the author couldn't be bothered anymore and just wanted to finish the book. On that note, I had to ask myself the question, if it is by chance that the book ends almost exactly on page 300 or if the author signed a contract that demanded a 300 show more page book?! show less

I would not have survived the fairly rough immersion into the STL at the last programming project I worked on without this book. I certainly found his other books useful, but this one explained the difficult to grasp concepts behind the STL (which I hadn't used, or even cared about, before 2003), and helped me to write code that made use of the template libraries without making my solutions too cumbersome.

It was a great book, and I'd recommend it to anyone having to work with the STL show more (although I point out that this book was new in 2001, which is a very long time ago for computer languages). show less

It's still too early to see how the C++ story will play out. Can a language keep growing forever without at some point seeing some sort of rebellion from the users and compiler writers who just cannot keep up?

But, right now, we have to deal with C++ as it is, and Scott Meyers remains a fine guide in explaining just what the heck is going on in the language, and how the various pieces fit together.
Many years ago I read the first version of this book; and this 3rd edition is a fine update, show more doing a good job of explaining a number of the new language features that have been added over the last ten years. show less

Even if you do not have a project that can use these pragmatic suggestions, this is a great way to focus on real-life in-depth programming concepts. reading this should enhance your intuition and improve your skills.