Effective C++ Third Edition 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs

Accustoming Yourself to C++ Regardless of your programming background, C++ is likely to take a little getting used to. It's a powerful language with...

Constructors, Destructors, and Assignment Operators Almost every class you write will have one or more constructors, a destructor, and a copy assignment operator. Little...

Resource Management A resource is something that, once you're done using it, you need to return to the system. If you don't, bad things...

Designs and Declarations Software designs — approaches to getting the software to do what you want it to do — typically begin as fairly...

Implementations For the most part, coming up with appropriate definitions for your classes (and class templates) and appropriate declarations for your functions (and function...

Inheritance and Object-Oriented Design Object-oriented programming (OOP) has been the rage for almost two decades, so it's likely that you have some experience with...

Templates and Generic Programming The initial motivation for C++ templates was straightforward: to make it possible to create type-safe containers like vector, list, and...

Customizing new and delete In these days of computing environments boasting built-in support for garbage collection (e.g., Java and .NET), the manual C++ approach...

Miscellany Welcome to the catch-all "Miscellany" chapter. There are only three Items here, but don't let their diminutive number or unglamorous setting fool you....