C++ FAQs (2nd Edition)

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In a concise and direct question-and-answer format, C++ FAQs, Second Edition brings you the most efficient solutions to more than four hundred of the practical programming challenges you face every day.

Moderators of the on-line C++ FAQ at comp.lang.c++, Marshall Cline, Greg Lomow, and Mike Girou are familiar with C++ programmers' most pressing concerns. In this book, the authors concentrate on those issues most critical to the professional programmer's work, and they present more explanatory material and examples than is possible on-line. This book focuses on the effective use of C++, helping programmers avoid combining seemingly legal C++ constructs in incompatible ways.

This second edition is completely up-to-date with the final ANSI/ISO C++ Standard. It covers some of the smaller syntax changes, such as "mutable"; more significant changes, such as RTTI and namespaces; and such major innovations as the C++ Standard Library, including the STL. In addition, this book discusses technologies such as Java, CORBA, COM/COM+, and ActiveX—and the relationship all of these have with C++. These new features and technologies are iconed to help you quickly find what is new and different in this edition.

Each question-and-answer section contains an overview of the problem and solution, fuller explanations of concepts, directions for proper use of language features, guidelines for best practices and practices to avoid, and plenty of working, stand-alone examples. This edition is thoroughly cross-referenced and indexed for quick access.

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C++ FAQs (2nd Edition) Review

This is a 'much expanded' version of the famous on-line C++ FAQ which promises much more detail and material. Since I am trying to constantly prove that I do know C++ well, I picked this book during my C++ book buying craze. I did read this book and while it doesn't make any serious mistakes related to C++, I just don't feel this book is relevant.First of all, the authors have clearly not given any thought to what their target audience would be. The level of presentation swings wildly from absolute basics (What is a class?) to fairly advanced subjects. Just as I found too many elementary questions in the book, someone less prepared would be surprised by a number of "advanced" topics. While this is understandable for a free on-line document, it doesn't render well in a rather costly book. Same applies to the annoying 'New!' labels marking new or updated topics. Again, this makes sense in a frequently changing on-line document, but it looks ridiculous in a printed book.The C++ design and coding style presented feels fairly solid and in that sense I can recommend this book to anyone without fearing that it would teach him something objectionable. The authors do their best to stress the importance of interpretation of a base class as a contract and this is a good thing. However, there are still some questionable statements that I don't agree with:- In 9.02 the authors suggest using exceptions for error handling - all error handling. Whether it is a good thing or not is still a hotly debated topic and I would suggest to at least present the disadvantages of such an approach and alternative methods.- The authors routinely check the new operator result for NULL, which not only doesn't make much sense (per ANSI C++, new() doesn't return NULL if it cannot create an object) but also teaches a fairly bad technique.Now, imagine my surprise when, while reading a book on C++ (presumably C++ language), I ended up with a chapter on COM and then another one on CORBA. No matter how related this material may feel, it is still not C++-specific. This sudden addition feels like book padding and that aforementioned 'additional material' that was supposed to sway the users of the free version to purchase the printed book. Well, it seems to have had a completely opposite effect upon me.I fully understand the authors' desire to be rewarded for their creation (that is, the on-line C++ FAQ). However, this is not an excuse to produce a book which is essentially a rehashed version of the free material diluted with barely relevant topics. Bottom line: read the free on-line version and spend your money either on Stroustrup's "The C++ programming Language" (if you are a novice) or on Myers's "Effective C++" dilogy. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews� Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report abuse | PermalinkComment�Comment (1)

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