Re: [Boost-users] Boost user's guide or getting started guide?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost user's guide or getting started guide?
From: Barend Gehrels (barend_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-02-25 16:09:04

Hi John,

On 25-2-2013 16:23, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> On 25 February 2013 14:42, John Lilley <john.lilley_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Greetings!
>>
>> I feel that many questions I have about Boost.Geometry are really questions
>> about the “Boost way and true path”.  Is there a good place to get started
>> with Boost.Geometry specifically or Boost in general?  I feel that I am
>> locking in some basic understanding of how all of these templates fit
>> together, what are Ranges, what are “concepts” etc.  Where do I RTFM?
> Boost is a collection of libraries and there is no true path,
> so it's hard to answer your question.
> (What is the true path for discovering GNU C toolset?)
>
> Read through the Getting Started
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/more/getting_started/index.html
> and then look at the one-liner for each of the libraries and identify
> those you are interested in or actually need:
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/
> Follow with reading overview, motivation and tutorial sections of chosen ones.
> Reflect if you still want to use them.
> Then dig the docs deeper, work with examples in libs/<library>/ folders.
>
> There are also external resources you may find useful, books:
>
> "Beyond the C++ Standard Library: An Introduction to Boost" by Björn Karlsson.
> "The Boost C++ Libraries" by Boris Schäling
> Obviously, you will want to have C++ standard and C++ template books handy while
> reading docs of more advanced general purpose libraries.
>
> If you have a library-specific question, ask here.
> Don't forget to place [library name] tag at the beginning of subject line.
> For example:
>
> [geometry] What is foo in bar?
>

In addition to Boris Schäling's book, you might also look into his 
tutorials, which can be found here:

http://en.highscore.de/cpp/boost/

Boost.Geometry is not (yet) there, but a general introduction and many 
often-used libraries are described with lots of examples.

Regards, Barend