I agree. I have the book and it has been very useful (although I have not used Boost in anger just yet as project is only just starting). He really needs to do another book that covers the rest of the library! James

-----Original Message----- From: John Maddock [mailto:john@johnmaddock.co.uk] Sent: 02 February 2006 10:27 To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Björn Karlsson's Boost Book

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Björn Karlsson has a book out titled "Beyond the C++ Standard Library: An Introduction to Boost". Is this book more than just a print out of the existing Boost HTML documentation?

Absolutely, actually it's a very good book IMO (and not just because I proofread some of the chapters!).

Basically, it looks at a selection of core Boost libraries, and addresses the following questions:

What is it? What's it good for? How does it make my code better and more robust? When should I use this? How do I use it?

So it's a bit like an extended tutorial, but it addresses the when and why questions much better than I've seen anywhere else.

John.

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