Free E-Books for C++ Programming

This is a 12 chapter book on C++ Programming by well known author Herbert Schildt. The book is in XPS format which can be viewed in Internet Explorer 6 or by the free download viewer (linked on the page).

C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism) is a native-programming model that provides an easy way to write programs that execute on data-parallel hardware such as graphics cards (GPUs). This link is the download pdf of the 135 page specification.

A work in Progress e-book on Wikipedia. If you feel competent enough, why not contribute to it?

Written by Pierre Chatelier (original in French is available) and translated to English by Aaron Vegh, this is a 50 page PDF that looks at the many aspects of Objective-C, compared to C++ notions. If you are a C++ developer this may help you in adapting to Objective-C.

High Integrity Coding Standards Version 2.4 (this may change) is a free 75 page PDF that provides one such set of standards for C++. It's a pretty comprehensive document ranging from classes, control flow, constants, declarations through expressions, functions, memory management, STL and templates. You can request this to be sent by email on the site.

A downloadable PDF (in Zip or GZIP form) this is over 200 pages in 15 chapters on techniques to make your C++ applications more robust. It covers objects, naming conventions, memory, oop, error handling and even parts of C++ to avoid! First published as a book in 1997 this is still very relevant today.

This document is the Coding standards required for the Lockheed Martin JSF C++ development. It provides direction and guidance to C++ programmers so they employ good programming style and proven programming practices leading to safe, reliable, testable, and maintainable code.

This book is aimed at readers already familiar with the C++ language, who want to use it to develop high performance application software or software libraries. Almost all the optimization techniques presented are platform independent, and therefore there will be few references to specific operating systems, processor architectures, or compilers.

This is a 155 page PDF manual is for advanced programmers and software developers who want to make their software faster. You should have a good knowledge of the C++ programming language and a basic understanding of how compilers work. The recommendations are for the x86 family of microprocessors from Intel, AMD and VIA including the 64-bit versions.

Learn about choosing the right algorithms and how to solve problems effectively. Each chapter covers a programming task: sorting numbers, anagrams, or word counting. The author's experience helps describe how to arrive at a solution quickly. The code examples are written in C and C++.

This looks at efficiency in C++. It gives a model of time and space overheads implied by use of various C++ language and library features, to debunk widespread myths about performance problems, to present techniques for use of C++ in applications where performance matters, and to present techniques for implementing C++ Standard language and library.

Bruce Eckel has published over 150 articles and several books such as Thinking in C++ (1995) and the 2nd edition (2000). This book is a legitimate free download and this page lists many sites that carry it. The mindview.net appears down so I've changed links.

Visual C++ 6 Unleashed provides a detailed coverage of the main topics in Visual C++ 6 programming. You will be able to program 32 bit Windows (2000, and XP) in Visual C++. It includes debugging, HTML help, creating custom AppWizards, writing add-ins for the IDE, multi-threaded MFC applications, NT services and much more.