My books are here (at last…)
The book that my dad ordered for my birthday has
finally arrived. First my dad ordered the book from some English online
bookstore in the beginning of January. But after having waited 14 days he
asked them what they were doing? The webpage had said that it would be
shipped right away. They answered that the book were in backorder with
their suppliers… Strange, as this is an extremely popular book on C++.
So my dad cancelled the order and ordered the book at Amazon instead. While we were at it, we also ordered some extra books. I ordered a book about the Standard Template Library in C++ and my dad ordered a book about database development in Kylix — which is the legendary Delphi ported to [GNU][]/Linux. Using these tools, it’s possible to develop a program under MsWindows and them recompile it under GNU/Linux, or the other way around. Both Kylix and Delphi uses ObjectPascal which is another nice language.
Amazon promptly shipped all the books, but then the Danish postal service screwed things up! Or at least that’s our theory. The books in my dads package was switched with some books for a guy who lives in Copenhagen. My dad called this guy, but he didn’t reply before my dad had shipped the books back to Amazon. They were very sorry for the trouble and shipped a new set of books right away.
And now, I’ve finally gotten ”The C++ Programming Langauge” by Bjarne Stroustrup;
ISBN:0201700735 and Effective STL by Scott Meyers;
ISBN:0201749629. The Stroustrup book is as expected: heavy,
complete and throughout. I bought it because I wanted a reference
for C++ and I’m pretty sure that’s what I’ve gotten.
The other books is much smaller and consists of 50 specific points that one should keep in the back of ones head when using the Standard Template Library (STL). This books is written in a much more entertaining style, but I’m sure the advice given here will be useful.
Now I just have to start programming some C++!
Martin Geisler:
I have read through the books (not right now, now I’m just recategorizing my old posts after having imported them into [WordPress][]) and I’m glad that I have them in case I someday have to do some C++ programming, but I must admit that I haven’t really done so yet… I have been programming in all sorts of other languages at Uni and in my free time: Java, PHP, and C.
14 July 2005, 12:57 am