On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Mike P
If I was being introduced to boost for the first time, I would appreciated seeing the following topics presented:
shared_ptr and other smart pointers tuples bind and lambda (just a little subset of what is possible) enable_if (and overview of SFINAE) function multi_index (some simple subset of it) variant and any (and their differences) ref (with a couple of examples where it is useful) type_traits (just so to show that something like this exists)
possibly a little bit of regex possibly a little of threads
That's a very good list, and pretty much the selection I'd make too. All of those mentioned here are the 'utility' libraries of Boost, which is the Boost I make most use of, but I guess there are also more application specific libraries like Asio. There's also the very small, but essential, things like Boost::swap, noncopyable, etc., which have the benefit of being able to be covered quickly. The new Range library might also be worth some attention, as much as anything for its ability to leverage a higher level of abstraction of ranges. - Rob.