Effective C++, Third Edition

February 21, 2006 @ 2:00 | In Books, Programming | No Comments |

Effective C++, Third Edition
Author: Scott Meyers
Pages: 297
Published: August, 2005

I had read the second edition of Effective C++ two times and when I discovered that the third edition of the book was out I though this would be a good oportunity to read the book again.

If you are a serious C++ programmer this book is a must read for you. If you haven’t read it stop wasting your time reading this blog and get a copy of the book. Effective C++ is the perfect book to accompany your main C++ book. Although intended to be your secondary book on C++, Effective C++ will learn you more that simple C++ tricks.

This third edition is not a mere revision of the second one. Most of the topics have been restructured including new Items (now expaded to 55) about subjects that were not present in the first and second edition (First edition was written in 1991 when C++ was almost a C plus classes, Second edition was a bug fixed First Edition). Now you can read about templates, metaprogramming and exceptions (with some ideas borrowed from Exceptional C++ by Herb Sutter).

The book is structured in nine blocks, going from items about initialization, resource management, inheritance… and finishing with the state of the C++ standard library (including TR1, to be included in C++0x) and the popular Boost library.

Conclusion: if you can only read a book about c++, choose this one.

Rating: 10 / 10