What's a good reference book for C++?

[Elledan]

I was thinking about getting this one, but I'm not certain whether it's such a good reference book.

Any suggestions?

 

[abracadabra1]

^^^ don't have a suggestion, but i'm damn interested as well.

 

[CountZero]

I use "The Annotated C++ Reference Manual" or some name similar to that (its sitting at work right now). Once you know C++ pretty well its a great book because its concise in its explanations.

 

[crypticlogin]

I have the Stroustrup book and it's a decent reference. Sometimes he makes assumptions and just throws things into the examples ("where'd he pull that from??&quot but it does make sense with a little hashing out. Other than that, you can't really go wrong with a book written by the C++ creator but have a secondary reference on hand as a backup and/or clarifier.

 

[Elledan]

<< I use &quot;The Annotated C++ Reference Manual&quot; or some name similar to that (its sitting at work right now). Once you know C++ pretty well its a great book because its concise in its explanations. >>

This book is pretty old (1990). Is it still accurate?

tenchim thanks for your input. From the reviews at Amazon I already suspected that it wasn't such a great reference book to be used alone. Thanks for confirming my suspicions

 

[StormRider]

&quot;C++: How to Program&quot; by Deitel &amp; Deitel is what the University of Maryland uses. I used it and I liked it.

 

[CountZero]

As far as I know its still accurate but then again the most advanced feature I've ever used was STLs and I do embedded systems programming where C++ support is often times a sketchy endeavor.

 

[Elledan]

Thanks, CountZero.

I'll get 'The C++ programming language' (see my first post for a description of the book) then and use some of my friends as second reference

Thanks guys for your help.

 

[Praetor]

Probably not what you're talking about, but this is one of the books I'm using to teach myself C++ from scratch.

 

[Elledan]

ROFLMAO!

Luckily I'm past that stage