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" Beautiful C++ presents the C++ Core Guidelines from a developer's point of view with an emphasis on what benefits can be obtained from following the rules and what nightmares can result from ignoring them. For true geeks, it is an easy and entertaining read. For most software developers, it offers something new and useful."
--Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++ and co-editor of the C++ Core Guidelines

Writing great C++ code needn't be difficult. The C++ Core Guidelines can help every C++ developer design and write C++ programs that are exceptionally reliable, efficient, and well-performing. But the Guidelines are so jam-packed with excellent advice that it's hard to know where to start. Start here, with Beautiful C++.

Expert C++ programmers Guy Davidson and Kate Gregory identify 30 Core Guidelines you'll find especially valuable and offer detailed practical knowledge for improving your C++ style. For easy reference, this book is structured to align closely with the official C++ Core Guidelines website.

Throughout, Davidson and Gregory offer useful conceptual insights and expert sample code, illuminate proven ways to use both new and longstanding language features more successfully, and show how to write programs that are more robust and performant by default.

Avoid "bikeshedding": stop wasting valuable time on trivia
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Know which legacy features to avoid and the modern features to use instead
Use newer features properly, to get their benefits without creating new problems
Default to higher-quality code that's statically type-safe, leak resistant, and easier to evolve
Use the Core Guidelines with any modern C++ version: C++20, C++17, C++14, or C++11

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Foreword by Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++ and co-editor of the C++ Core Guidelines

I enjoyed reading this book. I enjoyed it especially because it presents the C++ Core Guidelines (CG) very differently from how the CG itself does it. The CG presents its rules relatively tersely in a fixed format. The CG rules are often expressed in language-technical terms with an emphasis on enforcement through static analysis. This book tells stories, many coming from the games industry based on the evolution of code and techniques over decades. It presents the rules from a developer’s point of view with an emphasis on what benefits can be obtained from following the rules and what nightmares can result from ignoring them. There are more extensive discussions of the motivation for rules than the CG themselves can offer.

The CG aims for a degree of completeness. Naturally, a set of rules for writing good code in general cannot be complete, but the necessary degree of completeness implies that the CG are not meant for a systematic read. I recommend the introduction and the philosophy section to get an impression of the aims of the CG and its conceptual framework. However, for a selective tour of the CG guided by taste, perspective, and experience, read the book. For true geeks, it is an easy and entertaining read. For most software developers, it offers something new and useful.

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J. Guy Davidson, head of engineering practice at Creative Assembly, works on its Total War game franchise, curates its catalogue, and improves programming standards across its engineering team. He serves on the ISO C++ committee, moderates the #include discord server, speaks at C++ events, and offers C++ mentoring support through Prospela and BAME in Games.

Kate Gregory has 40+ years of development experience in multiple languages. She has keynoted on five continents, and volunteers in many C++ activities, especially #include , which is making the industry more welcoming and inclusive. Since 1986 she and her husband have run Gregory Consulting, helping clients worldwide become more effective.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (December 16, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0137647840
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0137647842
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.36 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.8 x 9.1 inches

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Kate Gregory has been using C++ since before Microsoft had a C++ compiler, and has been paid to program since 1979. She loves C++ and believes that software should make our lives easier. That includes making the lives of developers easier! She'll stay up late arguing about deterministic destruction or how C++ 11 is not the C++ you remember.

Kate runs a small consulting firm in rural Ontario and provides mentoring and management consultant services, as well as writing code every week. She has spoken all over the world, written over a dozen books, and helped thousands of developers to be better at what they do. Kate is a Microsoft Regional Director, and a Visual C++ MVP, an Imagine Cup judge and mentor, and an active contributor to StackOverflow and other StackExchange sites. She develops courses for Pluralsight, primarily on C++ and Visual Studio. In 2014 she was Open Content Chair for CppCon, the largest C++ conference ever held, where she also delivered sessions.

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Great book. Worth reading!

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This book was a great read. It delves into the reasoning behind the C++ Core Guidelines. This book will teach you how to write cleaner, more bug-free C++ Code. It was on par with Effective Modern C++.

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This is not a traditional "how to write c++" book. The authors engage in many stories of their past programming career to illustrate certain points of programming style. This makes for an enjoyable read, but you have to approach this differently from most other c++ books. It's a matter of reading along, trusting that somewhere down the line a point will emerge. It usually does, but these lessons take more mental effort to absorb than a straight textbook, and you probably need to have a bit of experience in programming that empathize with the point they are making. Also, for a programming book this has remarkable many pages that are (almost) pure text. Sometimes I wished for more code samples / diagrams.

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Nicely updated and slimmed down but

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Nice that it is slimmed down to just 30 items.
But what is with the spurious hyphens. It makes it very annoying to read.

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Incredibly verbose with very little useful information

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I was enticed by the Beautiful C++ title of this book. Code should definitely be beautiful but this books offers nothing to realize that goal; nothing beautiful inside, neither code nor insights.

The author tries to explain technical subjects by describing in useless detail their past projects and coding experiences in an informal and chatty manner, dumb humor and tedious anecdotes included. The author obviously thinks all of their past programming experiences are amazing and incredibly interesting.

Each chapter in the book attempts to cover a single Core C++ Guideline but typically introduces several topics with the actual Guideline buried somewhere in the text. The chapters are incredibly verbose with very little useful content.

For example, the Don't Insist on Having a Single Return Statement chapter (yes, an entire chapter on this). The first two and a half pages describes the author's experience in 1981 programming games on a Sinclair ZX81 in assembly language. On the fifth page they briefly discuss RAII, which is useful, but then go on to a brief, muddled discussion of exceptions.

I feel that 90% of the book is useless chatty fluff and most technically interesting Guidelines are buried in the text and not very well explained.

An infinitely better book is the Core Guidelines book by Rainer Grimm, very useful explanations and excellent presentation.

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Very informative

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Great book for those looking to write cleaner code

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W. Fynn

An Insightful Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 9, 2022

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The writers explain why we do what we do, or at least, what we ought to be doing. They also shed light on how we got here as the language and practice evolves. Indeed, it’s a wonderful read.

Luis Solé

Great book.

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Glad to read it. It's easy to follow, makes a lot of interesting points and definitely it's a must in a programmer library.

C. Heigele

Super Buch, Versand leider unter aller Kanone

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Es ist ein spitzen Buch um ein bisschen einen anderen Blickwinkel auf die Core Guidelines zu erhalten.

Allerdings hat bei mir der Versand etwa 3 Wochen gedauert und ich wurde nicht sauber darüber informiert. Ist man von Amazon so gar nicht gewöhnt....

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