I found this one useful: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Standard-Library-Introduction- Boost/dp/0321133544/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233864028&sr=8- 1

Only covers a fraction of Boost though - Boost is so big and continually growing.

Have fun,

This book is very helpful. In fact, It's this book that got me on my way of learning and using and understanding the boost libs. But I hope there's revision versions of this book adding contents of the newly added boost libs, e.g. proto, fusion, accumulators, etc. Reading this book is much more effective than reading the documentations, IMO. B/Rgds Max

I'm very happy to hear that you still find my Boost book (Beyond the C++ Library - An Introduction to Boost) useful. I agree that a new revision is needed, but have to admit that I don't currently have one planned. Also note that there are a couple of other Boost books out there: * C++ Template Metaprogramming: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques from Boost and Beyond, by David Abrahams and Aleksey Gurtovoy. * The Boost Graph Library: User Guide and Reference Manual, by Jeremy G. Siek, Lie-Quan Lee, and Andrew Lumsdaine. Keep reading! Best regards, Bjorn Karlsson

From: Max To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Hi

This book is very helpful. In fact, It's this book that got me on my way of learning and using and understanding the boost libs.

But I hope there's revision versions of this book adding contents of the newly added boost libs, e.g. proto, fusion, accumulators, etc.

Reading this book is much more effective than reading the documentations, IMO.

B/Rgds Max

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Björn Karlsson

wrote:

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I'm very happy to hear that you still find my Boost book (Beyond the

C++ Library - An Introduction to Boost) useful. I agree that a new

revision is needed, but have to admit that I don't currently have one

planned.

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Also note that there are a couple of other Boost books out there:

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...

* C++ Template Metaprogramming: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques from

Boost and Beyond, by David Abrahams and Aleksey Gurtovoy.

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* The Boost Graph Library: User Guide and Reference Manual, by Jeremy

G. Siek, Lie-Quan Lee, and Andrew Lumsdaine.

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Keep reading!

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Best regards,

...

Bjorn Karlsson

Thanks for a good book. My copy's now sitting on a colleague's desk

who seems to be finding it useful also.

Agree that C++ Template Metaprogramming is a good book. I read that

one late last year pretty much start to finish on a week's holiday in

Menorca, Spain. I have a very understanding partner :) Trouble is I

don't have an immediate use for the techniques presented in the book

so I'll not use it and consequently I'll forget it. Maybe I'm too set

in runtime dispatch ways? The whole thing led nicely to a discussion

of DSELs and Boost.Spirit which is why I want to use Spirit2 so much

as I have a large variety of file formats I want to parse for an

upcoming application.

Learning the Boost Graph Library is on the horizon for me too...

Regards,

Pete

Another boost book we are expecting is boost proto. It is a great library. So far, I am referring to the link proto_doc_pdf http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=boost_proto-1.37.zip&directory=PDF%20Documentation& for the nice pdf documentation. May be, Eric will oblige us by penning down the greatest library in boost: proto in a book form in very near future. Thanks, Chandra http://member.acm.org/~cs9in

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Max wrote:

Chandra Kumar wrote:

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Another boost book we are expecting is boost proto. It is a great library.

So far, I am referring to the link proto_doc_pdf http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=boost_proto-1.37.zip&directory=PDF%20Documentation& for the nice pdf documentation.

May be, Eric will oblige us by penning down the greatest library in boost: proto in a book form in very near future.

I look forward to a book on proto.

Wow, thanks. I don't have plans to write a Proto book, though. It's so niche, I doubt there would be enough people who would buy it. -- Eric Niebler BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com

The CPP Cookbook has some boost recipes http://www.amazon.com/Cookbook-Cookbooks-OReilly-Ryan-Stephens/dp/0596007612/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234279041&sr=8-1 -----Original Message----- From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of dhruva Sent: 08 February 2009 04:11 To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost books [was RE: Hi] Hello, With some of the boost core part of boost-consulting, I guess it is quite feasible to come up with a definitive guide to boost or even a cookbook styled book. Boost is a treasure box, the problem is to know what library fits where. Hence, request for a cookbook styled book. I find the getting into using boost part the toughest mainly due to lack of understanding of various features and their applicability of boost libraries. With more boost libraries becoming part of standard C++, I am sure the demand is just going to increase. I am just waiting to buy one good book to get an overview of libraries and their usage in one printed bound copy. -dhruva ----- Original Message ----

From: Eric Niebler To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Sent: Sunday, 8 February, 2009 9:31:03 AM Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost books [was RE: Hi]

Max wrote:

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Chandra Kumar wrote:

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Another boost book we are expecting is boost proto. It is a great library.

So far, I am referring to the link proto_doc_pdf

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for the nice pdf documentation.

May be, Eric will oblige us by penning down the greatest library in boost: proto in a book form in very near future.

I look forward to a book on proto.

Wow, thanks. I don't have plans to write a Proto book, though. It's so niche, I doubt there would be enough people who would buy it.

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I was terrorized to see the example in proto which implements a simple lambda DSEL using proto.

You were terrorized?! I didn't know my code inspired terror. ;-)

It is a great code cutter I guess.

Do you think that the boost lambda will eventually be re-written using proto in near future?

Yes, actually. Or rather, Boost.Phoenix, the library that will supersede Boost.Lambda, will be rewritten using Proto. There is already a prototype in SVN at branches/proto/v4/boost/phoenix.

Or maybe the rest of the boost libraries(including GIL, BGL) will be re-written too in proto?

The boost libraries that are expression template-based domain-specific embedded languages are the ones that could benefit from Proto. The rest are fine as they are. We don't want to terrorize anybody needlessly.

Many a thanks for showing us the pinnacle of c++.

Flattered, thank you. -- Eric Niebler BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com

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I look forward to a book on proto.

Wow, thanks. I don't have plans to write a Proto book, though. It's so niche, I doubt there would be enough people who would buy it.

-- Eric Niebler BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com

Being told there will probably not exist a book on proto in the foreseeable future. My only option seems to be printing a copy of the pdf doc and having a dig. I hope that will not be a hard time for me, I do. ;-) B/Rgds Max

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From: John Maddock Just out of curiosity: are folks particularly wedded to hard-copy, or would they accepting of e-books?

I am hooked to hard copy. I have a safari account provided from my office that I use only to search for a topic or read a book enough to decide to go and buy a hard copy. It does burn a hole in the pocket and occupy shelf space (in limited space in my apartment) but the satisfaction of being able to read it with out getting distracted (which is the case when I read on the computer) still makes me buy hard copies of books. -dhruva Connect with friends all over the world. Get Yahoo! India Messenger at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/?wm=n/

I'm very happy to hear that you still find my Boost book (Beyond the C++ Library - An Introduction to Boost) useful. I agree that a new revision is needed, but have to admit that I don't currently have one planned.

Thank you so much for your great book! I've read it for more than 3 times, I'm afraid. I hope you could write an updated version. That would be of great help of the community.

Also note that there are a couple of other Boost books out there:

* C++ Template Metaprogramming: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques from Boost and Beyond, by David Abrahams and Aleksey Gurtovoy.

I have this book but not finished it yet, due to lack of time and its high order at the time I for my first time met it. I'll pick it up again and finish reading it.

* The Boost Graph Library: User Guide and Reference Manual, by Jeremy G. Siek, Lie-Quan Lee, and Andrew Lumsdaine.

Yes, I have this book and nearly finished. BGL is really a great lib. I like numerical and algorithm libs.

Keep reading!

Yes, defininitely I will.

Best regards, Bjorn Karlsson

B/Rgds Max