Hi, I'm going to be teaching a four hours workshop about getting started with Boost, and I'm wondering which libraries would be the most representative and interesting to show. I was thinking about doing a quick review of the boost libraries that were accepted for the C++ Technical Report 1, quickly saying what each is about, and showing one example. That would be the first part of the workshop. For the second part, I'm making a selection of the most interesting libraries. I'd thoroughly explain each of them, showing several examples and maybe giving some time for the students to fiddle with their computers and the libraries. And here's where I need your help. So far, the libraries I'm sure I'm going to teach are: smart pointers, lexical_cast, bind and function, ref, hash and unordered containers. I'd also add strings algorithms, maybe regex and/or tokenizer. I'm not sure about «program options». Anyway, what's your advice? What are the 12~15 boost libraries you find essential? Thanks in advance. -- José Tomás Tocino García