Ok. Josuttis is a ''tutorial'' but it''s a tutorial for the standard library, not for the language. It shows you how to use the features, not what a variable is or any of that. Possibly chapters 2 and 3 will be wasted on you, but that''s all. I find the sections on the containers, algorithms and iterators to be a useful reference, which I now use instead of the SGI docs. Similarly, the string and stream chapters are useful, although it''s unfortunately patchy on how to derive your own stream classes. And the internationalization chapter seems to be ok, even though I''ll probably never use it.
Here''s an example of the ''quality'' of the reference material in Josuttis: you decide for yourself if it''s too patronizing for you or not:
void list::remove(const T&
value )
void list::remove_if(UnaryPredicate
op )
- remove() removes all elements with value
value - remove_if() removes all elements for which the unary predicate
op(elem) yields true.
- Note that
op should not change its state during a function call. See Section 8.1.4, page 302, for details.
- Both call the destructors of the removed elements.
- The order of the remaining arguments remains stable.
- This is the special version of the remove() algorithm, which is discussed on page 378, for lists.
- T is the type of the container elements.
- For further details and examples, see page 170.
- The functions may only throw if the comparison of the elements may throw.
- Provided by lists.
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Even looking at the index/contents doesnt really show how the book is structured.
My big problem is that i cant find the books in local bookstores so if i should buy one id would have to be from Amazon or similar. Im so obsessed with a reference, because i already know, for example, what the datastructures in the STL are and how they should be used, i just dont know the syntax for using them(in C++).(as opposed to the C++ language syntax, which i DO know)
Thanks for any feedback.
PS: I asked about something similar a while ago, but im pretty pedantic about buying books 
