A Tour of C++
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A Tour of C++
Bjarne Stroustrup
6 people recommended it in 3 threads, 2014–2020.
What people on Hacker News said
I read this book after having programmed C++ with the common "C++ is C with classes" attitude for a while, and it really made me change the way I looked at this language.
It was the book that made me realize how beautiful the RAII idiom is, that the STL was clearly not hacked together by a bunch of crazy monkeys, that you rarely need raw pointers in your code and that -- in contrast to popular belief -- you seldom need to care about memory management.
Stroustrup's "A Tour of C++" is a great overview of C++11 and modern C++.
It's not very long and worth a read to see what's new in the C++ world.
I've also found it to be a great resource for understanding a lot of the design decisions in Rust (if you're into that sort of thing), which are often informed by similar decisions in recent versions of C++ that "Tour of C++" discusses in detail.
Where it comes up
- Ask HN: What's the best programming book you've read recently? 2014 · 3 recommendations
- Ask HN: What are the latest and greatest books on your favorite language? 2015 · 2 recommendations
- Ask HN: Best books under 200 pages for developers? 2020 · 1 recommendation