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Online Resources

  • online documentation for STL.

  • You can get emacs for windows from here .

  • Cygwin : a unix-like environment for Windows.

  • If you want to write your exercises on ms-windows, you might want use DJGPP , (the gcc ported to windows). At the DJGPP site, goto "Getting DJGPP" and then pick "Zip Picker". Fill the form and press the button. After downloading the files you need, follow the instructions that the zip-picker gives you at the buttom of the result page.



  • Bjarne Strousrtup "C++ Programming Language", 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley.



    This is a very professional book, written by the creator of C++.
    Some claim it is not very friendly and that it is not the right choice for the novice.
    It is certainly an important reference book, but it might not be the best tutorial.


  • Stanley B. B. Lippman et al. "The C++ Primer", 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley 1998.

    Friendly and light book (though it has 1236 pages). Compare the picture on the cover with the one on Stroustrup's. Seems to be better as a tutorial than as a reference book.