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Lacks depth	Customer Rating:
This book does not even mention the use for some items that are integral to correct C++ usage, such as multidimensional vectors. It is not the book you will go to to find answers. It could be good as a primer on STL.

I think it is the author who makes the difference

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Very complete, super helpful. If you are scared of C++ STL and you think it is an endless sea, this book will help you put things in an order. Very practical and it goes deeply inside the fundamentals. A must have for the non-hacker. This book is for the academic type scientist who wants to learn programming in an orthodox science like way. So if you are a mathematician a physicist or in general a scientist who want to get into C++ and program use this book. Also try other books from this author like C++ Templates: The Complete Guide. He is a very talented technical writer and scientist too.

C++ Standard Library Reference	Customer Rating:
The author has wrote a book that presents C++ standard library to the average programmer with plenty of samples that show how to implement each concept step by step.

Getting dated, but still my first stop reference	Customer Rating:
I got this book originally back in 2001, and I still use it almost every day as the first stop for any STL issue I have. It's also what I give new employees who need to get up to speed on the STL. IMHO there's no better place to start if you want to learn to use the STL.

If you use the STL, you need this book	Customer Rating:
Still the best book on the STL. Buy this and Josuttis' templates book and you'll be set to learn the intricacies of C++ programming. There are very few genuinely useful C++ books; Josuttis' books are certainly among them... to the point where I almost never bother consulting any others. If I can't understand it from reading Josuttis, I delve into the header files themselves.