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Best On Subject, Must Own.	Customer Rating:
The Title To This Comment Pretty Much Says It All. I Highly doubt that theres a book better than this on the standard library. which makes this a must own.

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.