My Favorites C++ Books

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There are various books about C++. The reference manuals and the optimizations ones. For example, Addison Wesley has a serie called "C++ In-Depth - Bjarne Stroustrup" also called the red books. Look at this titles:

  • Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example, Andrew Koenig
    and Barbara E. Moo
  • Applied C++: Practical Techniques for Building Better Software, Philip Romanik and Amy Muntz
  • The Boost Graph Library: User Guide and Reference Manual, Jeremy G. Siek, Lie-Quan Lee, and Andrew Lumsdaine
  • C++ Network Programming, Volume 1: Mastering Complexity Using ACE and Patterns, Douglas C. Schmidt and Stephen D. Huston
  • C++ Network Programming, Volume 2: Systematic Reuse with ACE and Frameworks, Douglas C. Schmidt and Stephen D. Huston
  • C++ Template Metaprogramming: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques from Boost and Beyond, David Abrahams, Aleksey Gurtovoy
  • Essential C++, Stanley B. Lippman
  • Exceptional C++ Style 40 New Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions, Herb Sutter
  • Exceptional C++; 47 Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems,
    and Solutions, Herb Sutter
  • Modern C++ Design: Applied Generic Programming and Design Patterns,
    Andrei Alexandrescu
  • More Exceptional C++: 40 New Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions, Herb Sutter

Not in the serie:

  • Effective C++ Third Edition, 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs, Scott Meyers

The book of the language is:

  • The C++ programming language, Fourth edition, Bjarne Stroustrup

The books to understand rapidly the new features of C++11 is:

  • A Tour of C++ , Bjarne Stroustrup
  • C++ Primer, Fifth Edition, Stanley B. Lippman, Josée Lajoie, Barbara E. Moo

The book to understand the compilers is:

  • Inside the C++ Object Model, Stanley B. Lippman

The book to learn the STL:

  • The C++ standard library : a tutorial and reference, 2nd Edition, Nicolai M. Josuttis