Thursday,  September 7, 2006

Overview of the Standard Template Library.

Topics

• Review of Vectors, Lists, Stacks, Queues, Deques, Sets, Multisets, Maps, and Multimaps in the Standard Template Library
• Iterators and how code them
• Deciphering the Microsoft Help Screens for the Standard Template Library
• Using the Standard Template Library with Linux's g++ compliler.

Reference

The best on-line reference for the Standard Template Library is at http://www.cppreference.com.

Example Code

• Vectors       Stacks       Sets

Readings

The Standard Template Library is not covered directly in the book.  As general review of lists, stacks and queues you should read Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 carefully, paying particular attention to those topics you may not have covered in your previous course work.