ISBN: 9788184040364    Publisher: Shroff; First edition Year of publishing: 2014     Language: English

Do you like reinventing the wheel? If so, you can put this book back on the shelf and pretend that 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. C++ experts D. Ryan Stephens, Christopher Diggings, Jonathan Turkanis and Jeff Cogswell have collected a wide variety of C++ solutions for your benefit. Topic areas covered in this book include: Working with numbers. Dates and times. Stream-based input or output. Exception handling. Working with classes and objects. Building applications with make. Parsing XML. String and text manipulation. Multithreading. Standard library algorithms and containers. Mathematical programming. Internationalization. The Boost. Build system. 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 tendency toward formal or 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 will 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.
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D. Ryan Stephens is a software engineer, writer and student living in Tempe, Arizona. He enjoys programming in virtually any language, especially C++. His interests include the fields of information retrieval and data mining and pretty much anything that has to do with algorithms and large data sets. When he's not working, writing or programming, he plays with his kids, works on his house or goes cycling. Christopher Diggins is a freelance C++ programmer and consultant and writes the Agile C++ column for the C++ Users Journal. He is also the designer of the Heron programming language and spends far too much time in front of his computer.
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