STL Pocket Reference

Rating:
Summary: Cute and handy
Review: Cute, if I may use that term for a computer book! Hopefully, you already are familiar with the constructs described in this nifty little guide. Priority queues, queues, sets, iterators ... The book is strictly an aid to memory. You might consider it the hardcopy kin to online manual pages on each term.

Which raises the question. If you have the equivalent information already on your computer, why should you get this book? For some, there is in fact no need. But a surprising (and ironic) number of programmers still prefer hardcopy by their desktops. There is still something appealing about the combined visual, tactile and random access of a good concise reference book which trumps a screen, though we all write to the latter nowadays.