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C++ code quality is a difficult topic. There are some basic topics and other, more advanced. Sutter and Alexandrescu wrote a complete book on C++ standards to achieve good quality with basic and advanced topics, but Meyers wrote a book before, on the basics of C++.

Effective C++ is at its third edition, which is a complete rewrite with topics from the “old” Effective C++ and More Effective C++. So if you have one or the other, you will find yourself with additional content.
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Clean code is one of the most important things in a programmer’s work life. Almost every time I have to reuse code that was developed in universities or more generally by non-professional developers, the code is difficult to read and to understand.
After reading this book, I tend to know why it is so and how I can change my ways of coding to produce cleaner code.

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There is no official C++ standard, unlike several languages (Java, Python, …) where there are referentials for code and design style, good practices, … It didn’t exist until this book where two world-renowned C++ authors set the basis for your every day development.
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I got this book from a partnership between http://www.developpez.com/ and O’Reilly. Thanks to both of them.

What defines “beautiful code”? How do people think a beautiful code should look like? This isn’t a simple question to answer, so this book asked several lead programmers (Ruby, Python, C, C++, Java, Perl, …) some beautiful code they wrote or they encountered. And if some want to answer “think about a robust, simple to extend code and that will be it” (and I would be one of them before I read the book), there are some code that would not fit this profile.
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