Despite its highly adaptable and flexible nature, C++ is also one of the more complex programming languages to learn. Once mastered, however, it can help you organize and process information with amazing efficiency and quickness. The C++ Cookbook will make your path to mastery much shorter. This practical, problem-solving guide is ideal if you're an engineer, programmer, or researcher writing an application for one of the legions of platforms on which C++ runs. The algorithms provided in C++ Cookbook will jump-start your development by giving you some basic building blocks that you don't have to develop on your own. Less a tutorial than a problem-solver, the book addresses many of the most common problems you're likely encounter--whether you've been programming in C++ for years or you're relatively new to the language. Here are just some of the time-consuming tasks this book contains practical solutions for: Reading the contents of a directory Creating a singleton class Date and time parsing/arithmetic String and text manipulation Working with files Parsing XML Using the standard containers Typical of O'Reilly's "Cookbook" series, C++ Cookbook is written in a straightforward format, featuring recipes that contain problem statements and code solutions, and apply not to hypothetical situations, but those that you're likely to encounter. A detailed explanation then follows each recipe in order to show you how and why the solution works. This question-solution-discussion format is a proven teaching method, as any fan of the "Cookbook" series can attest to. This book will move quickly to the top of your list of essential C++ references. Do you like reinventing the wheel? If so, you can put this book back on the shelf and pretend you never saw it. But if you're a C++ programmer who likes to get work done, and prefers to spend time solving fresh, new problems, then hold on to this book and make a beeline for the checkout counter, because the C++ Cookbook is a treasure trove of solutions to everyday C++ programming problems.Throughout this book, the authors give real solutions that reflect current best practices in C++ programming. They focus on performance and portability, with a strong emphasis on formal and ad hoc standards. Many solutions take advantage of the C++ standard library. The authors also cover the Boost libraries, which represent some of the very best thinking in the world of C++.Sometimes it's fun to reinvent the wheel, but you'll be far more productive if you spend time solving the business problems you're being paid to solve. The standard library can help you do that. The Boost libraries can help you do that. The C++ Cookbook can help you do that. Use the solutions in this book for mundane problems so you can spend your time on more interesting work. Im a freshman in college and just finished my second c++ programming course, this book was my best friend. It gives you plenty of ways to do a given task and covers a broad range of topics. Because it covers a broad range of topics, even if a specific "recipe" doesn't do exactly what you want, there is usually no trouble in changing/tweaking it ever so slightly to do what you want to do for a specific problem. It's very well written and easy to understand for the laymen to c++ (like me!!) Building C++ applications Code organization Numbers Strings and text Dates and times Managing data with containers Algorithms Classes Exceptions and safety Streams and files Science and mathematics Multithreading Internationalization XML Miscellaneous.
