C++ Gems: Programming Pearls from the C++ Report

Almost every article in there is still valid although it was written years a go. The greatest authors on OO programming and C++ edited by the GURU MARTIN, (Uncle Bob). If you consider yourself an OO P/A/D and C++ is of interest to you don't miss this book!! Oh and do yourself a favor get the more C++ gems too...

C++ has reached maturity and still doesn't know exactly what it wants to be. This makes C++ both difficult and rewarding. One can approach C++ as a medium for expressing programs, but the richer rewards come when C++ is approached as a medium for expressing design. C++ Gems is an admirable collection of papers by masters of the art of balancing design against pragmatism. For those who want a comforting guiding voice, Koenig's "Ruminations on C++" is probably a better choice. But for those who want to cut a wide swath over all that C++ offers, at the level where each advance poses as poses as many problems as it solves, C++ Gems is hard to beat.<P

This book is excellent for a beginner and part time programmer. I especially appriciate the index, which I use frequently during programming to find out how it really works! The book covers the essential parts in c++ with a very good depth. This is the ONE book to use as handbook during c++ development to find out how c++ really works. I sometimes miss some more good examples to describe commands idears etc. Some programming experience and OO thinking is necessary to get the most out of the book.