More Exceptional C++: 40 New Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions (C++ In-Depth Series)

Organized in a practical problem-and-solution format, More Exceptional C++ picks up where the widely acclaimed Exceptional C++ leaves off, providing successful strategies for solving real-world problems in C++. Drawing from years of in-the-trenches experience, Herb Sutter provides tested techniques and practical solutions for programmers designing modern software systems with C++, from small projects to enterprise applications.Built around forty programming puzzles, More Exceptional C++ helps you understand the rules and issues critical to successful software design and development in C++. New themes included in this sequel place a strong emphasis on generic programming, memory management, and using the C++ standard library, including coverage of important techniques like traits and predicates. Also included are guidelines and considerations to remember when using standard containers and algorithms - topics rarely covered in-depth in other sources.Readers will find solutions to such important questions as:What pitfalls might you encounter when using std::map and std::set, and how can you safely avoid them? What kinds of predicates are safe to use with the STL, what kinds aren't, and why? What techniques are available for writing powerful generic template code that can change its own behavior based on the capabilities of the types it's given to work with? When and how should you optimize your code? Why can (and do) fancy optimizations get us into trouble? And how can some of these answers change if you're writing multithread-safe code? Does exception safety affect class design, or can it be retrofitted in as an afterthought? How can you avoid the Siamese Twin problem when combining inheritance-based libraries from different vendors? How can you safely use auto\_ptr, and then use common design patterns to adapt it to avoid common pitfalls? Can you use auto\_ptr as a class member? What must you know before you elect to use it that way? Plus one of the most frequently recurring questions about modern C++: When and how should you use namespaces, anyway?A must-have for the serious programmer, More Exceptional C++ provides a thorough and pragmatic understanding of the language while showing you how to write exceptional code in C++. Want to learn how to program in C++ immediately? Want to start writing better, more powerful C++ programs today? Accelerated C++'s uniquely modern approach will help you learn faster and more fluently than you ever believed possible. Based on the authors' intensive summer C++ courses at Stanford University, Accelerated C++ covers virtually every concept that most professional C++ programmers will ever use -- but it turns the "traditional" C++ curriculum upside down, starting with the high-level C++ data structures and algorithms that let you write robust programs immediately. Once you're getting results, Accelerated C++ takes you "under the hood", introducing complex language features such as memory management in context, and explaining exactly how and when to use them. From start to finish, the book concentrates on solving problems, rather than learning language and library features for their own sake. The result: You'll be writing real-world programs in no time -- and outstanding code faster than you ever imagined. More Exceptional C++ continues where Herb Sutter's best-selling Exceptional C++ left off, delivering 40 puzzles that illuminate the most challenging -- and most powerful -- aspects of C++. More Exceptional C++ offers many new puzzles focused on generic programming and the C++ Standard Template Library, including important techniques such as traits and predicates, as well as key considerations in using standard containers and algorithms -- many of them never covered elsewhere. More Exceptional C++ contains a detailed new section (and two appendices) on optimization in single- and multithreaded environments. It also provides important new insights on crucial topics first introduced in Exceptional C++, including exception safety, generic programming, and memory management. For all C++ programmers Organized in a problem and solution format, this work provides strategies for solving real-world problems in C++. Drawing from years of in the trenches experience, it provides tested techniques and practical solutions for programmers designing software systems, from small projects to enterprise applications, helping them understand the rules. Picks up where the widely acclaimed Exceptional C++ leaves off, providing successful strategies for solving real-world problems in C++. Promotes the practical and pragmatic understanding of the language while showing you how to write exceptional code in C++. Softcover. This text contains coverage of optimization in both single and multi threaded environments. It emphasizes generic programming and using the C++ Standard Library. Herb Sutter. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 271-272) And Index.