C++ Coding Standards (101 Rules, Guidelines, and Best Practices)

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C++ Coding Standards (101 Rules, Guidelines, and Best Practices)
Authors: Herb Sutter & Andrei Alexandrescu
Review by: Rift

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Befittingly named, C++ Coding Standards is the perfect book to show you how professional code should be constructed and gives a standard to your C++ coding. This book is great for a solitary coder, but seems most suited to a team of programmers as it gives a set protocol for commenting code, updating, and more.

Many people may have found that coding alone can be a slow process which lets you overlook mistakes that a team would normaly notice. Such mistakes could lead to very major security holes, or just a disliked product from you and/or your company. The thought is more than one programmer, a team of programmers must certainly be faster and more effecient.

This is however not always the case since in a team. If there is inadequate communication, a few people may try and code the same thing at once or it may not be clear who's supposed to update the code into one large updated project with each member's new code additions. Or what if some of the members didnt comment their code? C++ Coding Standards is the perfect book for co-ordinating an aimless mass of coders into a clean, profficient, powerful, programming machine.

This book will take some of the most simple to the more advanced strategies of making your team a "Team" by using many different strategies. Throughout the book you are not required to attempt any of the suggestions in the book, as they were careful to word things in such a manner as "Consider X..." instead of "Do X...". The suggestions and guidelines that you find in C++ Coding standards have been used in many published works, which you are given examples of in the book. If you are looking to organize, motivate, and kickstart your team onto the path of success and haste, I suggest this book as a very good starting point.