Modern C++ Design is widely acclaimed for its creative approach to devising powerful designs by reuniting generic programming and design patterns.
Modern C++ Design defines and systematically uses generic components - highly flexible design artifacts that are mixable and matchable to obtain rich behaviors with a small, orthogonal body of code.
Modern C++ Design has been translated in
German,
Japanese,
Traditional Chinese,
Simplified Chinese,
Korean (also coming with a cool sample chapter online),
Russian,
and
Romanian - Andrei's native language.
Read excerpts from Modern C++ Design, featured by InformIT:
Chapter 1: Policy-Based Design (full chapter)
Chapter 7: Smart Pointers (full chapter)
- Online book (free fragments, gotta pay for the whole thing)
More about Modern C++ Design:
To download Loki, you may want to mosey to project loki-lib on sourceforge.net. If you would like to contribute to Loki with enhancements, bug fixes, test cases, ideas and whatnot, please email Andrei.
New! Benjamin Kaufmann does the most complete port of Loki to Microsoft Visual C++ 6 (Service Pack 5)!
Rani Sharoni has ported all of Loki to Visual C++ version 7.0 aka VC.NET!
Download the original (read: dated) source code. That code is intended as a companion to the book - it mostly uses the same syntactic conventions and constructs exemplified by the text. Again, the latest source code is on sourceforge - see above.
- On amazon.co.jp, for Nihongo speakers
Modern C++ Design in press:
ACCU review written by Francis Glassborow himself!
"If you think I am wildly in favour of this book, you would be dead right."DevX review by Angelika Langer and Klaus Kreft
"This book will most likely change the way you use and understand C++ templates."Windows Developers Journal review by Victor Volkman
"As an advanced C++ programmer, if you have the time, energy, or inclination to read only one C++ book this year, my recommendation is pick up Alexandrescu’s Modern C++ Design."Comments on the Usenet in various languages [most recent first]
"Honestly, the book restored my faith in C++ being the One True Language [...]. Flamewars aside, the power that the book describes is immense..." (Eli Stevens)Overview in Chinese
[Well, I wouldn't know what quote to insert in here...]A short review on it-minds.com
"This text presents exciting, powerful new C++ idioms, brilliantly bringing together Standard C++, design patterns, and generic programming..."A bunch of funny, but allegedly favorable reader comments on flipcode.com
"C++ is cool. STL is quite cool. Modern C++ is just so cool."An overview in Spanish
"Este libro constituye un salto adelante similar al que la publicación de libros tales como Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms supuso a comienzos de los 90." ["This book ahead constitutes a jump similar to which the book publication such as Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms supposed at the beginning of the 90."]