Scott Meyers

I would not have survived the fairly rough immersion into the STL at the last programming project I worked on without this book. I certainly found his other books useful, but this one explained the difficult to grasp concepts behind the STL (which I hadn't used, or even cared about, before 2003), and helped me to write code that made use of the template libraries without making my solutions too cumbersome.

It was a great book, and I'd recommend it to anyone having to work with the STL (although I point out that this book was new in 2001, which is a very long time ago for computer languages).… (meer)

Interesting and useful selection of topics about programming in C++11 and C++14. Just what you would expect from reading the precursors. The chapter in the end about concurrency, however, seemed to be very shallow and badly researched. It looked as if the author couldn't be bothered anymore and just wanted to finish the book. On that note, I had to ask myself the question, if it is by chance that the book ends almost exactly on page 300 or if the author signed a contract that demanded a 300 page book?!… (meer)