Use the full power of C++

• First Edition Winner 1996 Jolt Award for Best Book of the Year.
• Learn practical programming and best practices.
• Meet the difficult challenges of C++ development.
• Build reliable and robust programs.
• Design Patterns chapter shows sophisticated use of objects, composition and polymorphism.
• Provides a gentle introduction to multithreaded programming, a feature being considered for the next version of Standard C++.
• Defensive Programming chapter includes a simple unit-testing framework and debugging techniques.
• In-depth treatment of Standard C++ Library facilities including strings, iostreams, and the "STL" algorithms and containers.
• Modern usage of templates, including template metaprogramming.
• Unravels the perplexities of multiple inheritance.
• Shows practical uses for RTTI.
• Explores exception handling in depth and clearly explains exception-safe design.
• Compliant with the official ISO C++ Standard.
• Presents results of current research being considered for inclusion in the next revision of Standard C++.
• All code examples freely downloadable, tested on multiple platforms and compilers including the free GNU C++ compiler on Windows/Mac/Linux.