The introduction of the C++11 standard has empowered programmers to articulate their ideas with greater clarity, simplicity, and directness, thereby enabling the development of faster and more efficient code. Bjarne Stroustrup, the original designer and implementer of C++, has undertaken a comprehensive revision of his authoritative reference and tutorial to address the needs of programmers seeking to utilize C++ most proficiently.
The Fourth Edition of "The C++ Programming Language" offers meticulous, intricately explained, and integrated coverage of the entire language landscape, encompassing its facilities, abstraction mechanisms, standard libraries, and fundamental design techniques. Throughout the text, Stroustrup provides concise examples that adhere to the "pure C++11" paradigm, carefully constructed to elucidate both usage and program design. In an effort to facilitate deeper comprehension, the author has included extensive cross-references within the book and to the ISO standard.
New C++11 features covered in this edition include support for concurrency, regular expressions, resource management pointers, enhanced containers, general and uniform initialization, simplified for-statements, move semantics, Unicode support, lambdas, general constant expressions, control over class defaults, variadic templates, template aliases, and user-defined literals. Compatibility issues are also addressed.
The comprehensive topics covered in this edition range from basic facilities such as type, object, scope, storage, and computation fundamentals to modularity supported by namespaces, source files, and exception handling. The book also delves into C++ abstraction, covering classes, class hierarchies, and templates to support a synthesis of traditional programming, object-oriented programming, and generic programming. A detailed exploration of the Standard Library is provided, encompassing containers, algorithms, iterators, utilities, strings, stream I/O, locales, numerics, and more. The intricacies of the C++ basic memory model are explored in depth.
This fourth edition ensures that C++11 is made accessible to programmers transitioning from C++98 or other languages, offering insights and techniques that even advanced C++11 practitioners will find indispensable. Available in both hardcover and paperback versions, the content remains identical. The hardcover version features an enhanced layflat binding, promoting ease of use on flat surfaces and increased durability, distinguishable by a small space inside the spine.
Didier "Dirac Ghost" Gaulin on www.goodreads.com wrote:One of the finest book I have ever read. It's so detailed and easy and digestive. What made more interesting is the collection of examples and simplified detailing of concepts.
It would be a mistake to think of this book as mere educational material on the C++ programing paradigm. This volume is Bjarne Stroustrup's programing philosophy explained through his design of the programing language itself. The writing is simple and clean, the examples are clear and well explained, and goes to the core, the foundation of what C++ is, and what, ultimately, is required when thinking about programming language design. I particularly enjoyed part 3 (The Standard Library) and the focus on what the compiler, the linker, and so on, are doing in the background. There's also a focus on implementation, which gives you enough concrete tangibility to link the concepts to the job of engineering a program for a potentially commercial purpose. A must buy. One warning, I would not start my learnings of programing using this book since it assumes a certain level of understanding of concepts found elsewhere in computer science, possibly at the last year of an undergraduate degree. This book is also rigorous, which is not to the liking of some people, as for me, it is something that I often prefer.