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.
