C++17 STL Cookbook

by Jacek Galowicz

C++ has come a long way and is in use in every area of the industry. Fast, efficient, and flexible, it is used to solve many problems. The upcoming version of C++ will see programmers change the way they code. If you want to grasp the practical usefulness of the C++17 STL in order to write smarter, fully portable code, then this book is for you. Beginning with new language features, this book will help you understand the language's mechanics and library features, and offers insight into how they work. Unlike other books, ours takes an implementation-specific, problem-solution approach that will help you quickly overcome hurdles. You will learn the core STL concepts, such as containers, algorithms, utility classes, lambda expressions, iterators, and more, while working on practical real-world recipes. These recipes will help you get the most from the STL and show you how to program in a better way. By the end of the book, you will be up to date with the latest C++17 features and save time and effort while solving tasks elegantly using the STL. Jacek Galowicz obtained his master of science in electrical engineering/computer engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. While at university, he enjoyed working as a student assistant in teaching and research, and he participated in several scientific publications. During and after his studies, he worked as a freelancer and implemented applications as well as kernel drivers in C and C++, touching various areas, including 3D graphics programming, databases, network communication, and physics simulation. In recent years, he has been programming performance- and security-sensitive microkernel operating systems for Intel x86 virtualization at Intel and FireEye in Braunschweig, Germany. He has a strong passion for modern C++ implementations of low-level software, and he tries hard to combine high performance with an elegant coding style. Learning purely functional programming and Haskell in recent years triggered his drive to implement generic code with the aid of meta programming.

Genres: Programming, Computer Science

532 pages, ebook

Published June 28, 2017

Reviews

[Julian Onions · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent text for updating knowledge to the latest C++ standard. Still not sure I've got the hang of nested lambdas. Some useful constructs been added.

[Felipe Mendes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great overview about how to use the C++ standart template library using C++17 new features. It is not a book to beginers, but even for them it is useful as a reference to perform several small tasks.

[Aliaksei Ivanou · Rating 5 out of 5]

Весьма интересная и нужная книга по стандарту C++17. Хорошие примеры, которых много, и отличный стиль изложения. Но вместе с тем, новичкам книга не подойдёт. Хотя книга по STL, судя по названию, но нужно знать STL хотя бы в общих чертах перед прочтением, потому что рассказываются возможности и нововведения из C++17, но не объясняется что-то. В целом, из примеров книги можно почерпнуть многое, и примеры в целом достаточно жизненные, чтобы можно было их даже применять на практике в проектах.