Re: [openvrml-develop] Fw: Looking for Conceptual Info

[John P. <jo...@sy...>]

That's an excellent list of books (although I haven't read 
Koenig & Moo either, I have all the others except Josuttis 
[but I'd be lying if I said I'd read them all]).

I would also recommend Björn Karrlsson's "Beyond the C++ 
Standard Library: An Introduction To Boost". Partly because 
OpenVRML uses Boost (hooray!), and partly because Boost 
answers the question "what could templates possibly be good 
for that would justify all this additional complexity?" 
(Apart from the STL, of course.)

And if you've read through all those books and your 
enthusiasm for C++ continues unabated, check out "Generative 
Programming" by Czarnecki and Eisenecker for some positively 
occult techniques.

Cheers,

John :^P

Braden McDaniel wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 07:28 -0700, rte...@ya... wrote:
>> Braden,
>> Thanks for the quick reply and the focus you've provided. I am not "faint hearted" when it comes to trying new things, viz. C++; as  long as I make consistent progress.               Could you please recommend the hard copy texts on C++ that you've found helpful? Also I often find suggestions that programmers should have  good "design patterns" texts.  Any thoughts/recommendations on this?
> 
> "Accelerated C++", by Koenig & Moo, gets recommended a lot as an
> introductory text by persons whose opinions I respect. I haven't read it
> myself, though. (Unfortunately for me there wasn't a book that filled
> this niche back when I started learning this stuff.)
> 
> The two references you'll really need are Stroustrup's "The C++
> Programming Language" and Josuttis' "The C++ Standard Library". Another
> good reference is Vandevoorde & Josuttis' "C++ Templates". Langer &
> Kreft's IOStreams book is good, too; but unnecessary unless you're doing
> significant work with IOStreams.
> 
> Once you've worked through "Accelerated C++", I'd recommend Scott
> Meyers' "Effective C++". His other two books, "More Effective C++" and
> "Effective STL" are good, too; though the former hasn't been updated in
> a while and is probably a little dated in parts.
> 
>>From there, you can move on to Herb Sutter's books: "Exceptional C++",
> "More Exceptional C++", and "Exceptional C++ Style". And somewhere along
> the way at this point you might want to pick up Alexandrescu's "Modern
> C++ Design".
> 
> For design patterns, I don't have a recommendation other than the
> canonical "Gang of Four" book, "Design Patterns". It's old; but it
> really is a classic. You'll find some elements of design pattern
> application in the Meyers and Sutter books (as a by-product of the fact
> that they teach, for the most part, useful idioms).
> 
>> It will be slow going for a while because I'll be teaching myself the language while going through your work. (I've some Java and C experience, but C is not C++).
>> I'll keep my posts on list unless someone tells me otherwise,
> 
> Your Java and C experience will help--at least the syntax shouldn't be
> totally alien. Again, best of luck.
> 

-- 
John Pallister
jo...@sy...