Scott Meyers
Books and CDs
Scott is the author of three acclaimed books on C++, plus a groundbreaking
CD that integrates two of those books in electronic form. In addition, he
conceived of and is Consulting Editor for Addison-Wesley's Effective
Software Development Series. He was also the primary author of
two popular books on downloading for Windows users.
The bottom of this page contains links to errata pages for his
publications.
Ongoing Work:
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Scott acts as Consulting Editor for The Effective Software
Development Series, a collection of books offering expert advice on
all aspects of modern software development. Each book describes the
critical things the experts almost always do — or almost always
avoid doing — to produce outstanding software. For details on
the series, consult the series overview (in PDF). To see the current set of
books in the series, visit the series web
page.
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Existing Publications For C++ programmers:
Scott's guideline-based approach to C++ summarizes the practices
employed by the experts — the things they almost always do or almost
always avoid doing — to produce clear, correct, efficient code.
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Effective
C++, Third Edition, 2005.
Scott's flagship book, fully revised for a new generation of C++ and
C++ programmers. The best Effective C++ ever! Includes
new material on resource management, templates, programming with
exceptions, and much more.
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Effective STL, 2001. 50
specific ways to improve your use of the STL, including techniques
for improving performance, eliminating resource leaks, avoiding
portability problems, and much more — all in Scott's inimitable
style.
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More Effective C++, 1996.
An instant best-seller. Indispensable in its own right, and an
invaluable companion to Effective C++. Includes detailed
treatments of topics such as reference counting, smart pointers,
proxy classes, double dispatching, and more.
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Effective
C++ CD, 1999. This CD-ROM contains the full text of both
Effective C++, Second Edition and More Effective
C++, plus a selection of related magazine articles. Designed
for use with web browsers,
the CD offers unique features, including the ability to create links to
any paragraph on the CD.
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Older (Out of Print) Books For Windows users:
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The Downloader’s Companion for Windows (with Catherine Pinch),
1995. A gentle introduction to downloading for nontechnical users.
Includes straightforward explanations of file compression and encoding,
image and audio formats, the meaning of file extensions, etc. Comes
with the software necessary to handle such arcana without your worrying
about it.
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The Downloader’s Companion for Windows 95 (with Catherine Pinch and
Chris Sells), 1996. An update of the previous book for Windows
95. Lauded by Sys Admin magazine as "a superb reference
... Every user will appreciate this outstanding resource."
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Errata Lists
Scott maintains lists of errata for the following publications:
