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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780321133540
ISBN: 0321133544
Label: Addison-Wesley Professional
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: September 10, 2005
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Sales Rank: 316329
Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Average Rating: 
Rating:  - An OK book.
I feel that the book does an OK job of introducing the reader to several boos libraries. It seems to be a good resource for somebody who never used boost libraries before and wants to learn about them. However, the book seems to lack certain depth. A lot of space is wasted on listings of the header files or listing of all methods and fields in classes. This kind of information is readily available online and does not contribute much to the book. On the other hand, not enough info is given about the ... Read More
Rating:  - Hey, don't constantly try to convince me of boost - just teach it to me!
Lets distinguish: Boost is great, but this book is just not well written.
It is technically shallow, it is exhausting and boring to read and the authors attitude seems arrogant and is nerving.
I wouldn't buy this book again but recommend working through the docs on the boost website which are way better.
Rating: - Love Boost but not this book
This book doesn't add any value over reading the documentation that comes with Boost (and some of the Boost documentation is really terse). It fails to explain concepts clearly and there are almost no diagrams.
Rating:  - Readable, broad coverage of the core Boost libraries
Boost is a series of libraries for C++ that provides extra functionality missing in the C++ standard library. Unless you're forced to only use what's part of the current standard, you'll want to lean heavily on Boost. And even if you can't use it for some reason, a lot of it is passing into the next version of C++, so you may as well get familiar with it now.
This book covers the most immediately useful Boost libraries for the general audience. Topics include various smart pointers, including ... Read More
Rating: - OK, but start with the boost site itself
The book is well-written, clear, and honest to the title -- it truly is an intro. In fact, it's honest to the title a bit too much: I found it shallow. It is very much like most of the other recent C++ books (although it's one of the better-written ones), that is it has a distinct publish-or-perish taste to it, like a paper produced by another graduate student who doesn't really want to write it but has to. Not enough depth. It is, however, free from many sins of this PhD-indited flood: it's NOT pompous, it ... Read More
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