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Learning Boost C++

You're reading from Learning Boost C++ Solve practical programming problems using powerful, portable, and expressive libraries from Boost

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783551217

Length 558 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Boost

Concepts

Functional Programming

Author (1):

Arindam Mukherjee

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing Boost FREE CHAPTER

2. The First Brush with Boost's Utilities

3. Memory Management and Exception Safety

4. Working with Strings

5. Effective Data Structures beyond STL

6. Bimap and Multi-index Containers

7. Higher Order and Compile-time Programming

8. Date and Time Libraries

9. Files, Directories, and IOStreams

10. Concurrency with Boost

11. Network Programming Using Boost Asio

A. C++11 Language Features Emulation

Index

Chapter 1. Introducing Boost

Welcome to learning about the richest collection of C++ libraries around, that is, Boost. In this introductory chapter, we will take a look at:

The history and evolution of Boost
What is Boost?
Getting started with Boost libraries

Like all the chapters in the book, this is a hands-on chapter that will require you to type in commands, write and test your code. Therefore, you should have access to a computer with a reasonably modern C++ compiler and an internet connection to download free software, including Boost libraries.

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Authors (1)

Mukherjee

Mukherjee

Sudipta Mukherjee was born in Kolkata and migrated to Bangalore. He is an electronics engineer by education and a computer engineer/scientist by profession and passion. He graduated in 2004 with a degree in electronics and communication engineering. He has a keen interest in data structure, algorithms, text processing, natural language processing tools development, programming languages, and machine learning at large. His first book on Data Structure using C has been received quite well. Parts of the book can be read on Google Books. The book was also translated into simplified Chinese, available from Amazon.cn. This is Sudipta's second book with Packt Publishing. His first book, .NET 4.0 Generics , was also received very well. During the last few years, he has been hooked to the functional programming style. His book on functional programming, Thinking in LINQ, was released in 2014. He lives in Bangalore with his wife and son. Sudipta can be reached via e-mail at sudipto80@yahoo.com and via Twitter at @samthecoder.

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