TITLE: STL book recommendations (Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++.moderated, 1 Nov 99) FORNEY: Brian Forney > Hello. This is my first post to comp.lang.c++.moderated, so please point > me to web page since this topic has likely been covered. > > I'm looking for a book on the STL that can get me going on the STL > fairly quickly. Does anyone suggest a particular book? "The STL > " seems like it may be a good book for that. STROUSTRUP: Bjarne Stroustrup Have a look at the ACCU (Association of C and C++ Users) collection of book reviews: http://www.accu.org/. These reviews are more extensive, less biased, and more professional that other sources of reviews that I know of. Importantly, the ACCU reviews are explicit about the level of expertice expected of a reader. There can be no one book that is best for everyone. Here are a few books with extensive coverage or the STL as included in the C++ standard library: Mat Austern: Generic Programming and the STL Nico Jusuttis: The C++ Standard Library Bjarne Stroustrup: The C++ Programming Language (3rd Edition)