Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133 EAN: 9780321125187 ISBN: 0321125185 Label: Addison-Wesley Professional Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: December 06, 2002 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Sales Rank: 267237 Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
Product DescriptionThe professional programmer's guide to avoiding and correcting ninety-nine of the most common, destructive, and interesting C++ design and programming errors. Serves as an inside look at the more subtle C++ features and programming techniques. Softcover.
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Rating: - Mandatory
This book, along with Dewhurst's other one, C++ Common Knowledge: Essential Intermediate Programming should be mandatory reading for C++ programmers.
No groundbreaking discoveries, only problems you are guaranteed to come against while developing in C++, solutions and advice. Some gotchas are pretty well known, others I haven't found in any other book, while most of them were a refresher or clarifier.
Read it so you won't have to learn these lessons the hard way, in the ... Read More
Rating: - Gotcha #11: Unnecessary Cleverness
I forced myself through the first chapter (first 12 Gotchas) and decided that I'd rather spend my time somewhere else.
First, many practices preached in this book are questionable. Quoted from the book: "I've received strong, negative, and sometimes abusive reactions to my use of every one of the constructs above." (Gotcha #7).
The author is against himself all the time - best described in his own words. In Gotcha #11: "Unnecessary cleverness is a common problem with C++ ... Read More
Rating: - solid C++ advice, dispensed in an amusingly grumpy fashion
There are unlikely to be many other C++ books where the word 'ignoramus' appears as often. Dewhurst's writing definitely has character. This book contains 99 items on common mistakes made by C++ programmers, and serves up best practices to replace those bad habits.
Does this sound a bit familiar? Well, yeah, there's substantial overlap with books by Scott Meyers and Herb Sutter, so not every item is a revelation. That said, C++ is sufficiently complicated that I can do with all the help ... Read More
Rating: - Better than Exceptional and effective
I prefer C++ gotchas to the C++ exceptional and effective series. Why? Because this book is much simpler. If you're a Hacker (?) I supouse you won't like this book, don't goes through the details of Exceptional and so on.
But If you want to learn the basic idioms and know-how of C++ I must recommend this one. Simpler, without obscure features... the way 99% C++ projects should be wrote.
Of course, This is a personal opinion :-) You should not be angry with me for don't say that the C++ ... Read More
Rating: - Lots of little glimpses behind the scenes
This book works by living up to its title and showing distinct problem areas with C++, highlighting the wary and unwary, experienced and inexperienced, alike. One of our team brought this in, and told us he'd learned a lot, and thought that we senior members would also benefit. Having scoffed at him, we each had to eat our words after reading.
- Mandatory
- Gotcha #11: Unnecessary Cleverness
