Recommended Reading

The following books and papers are recommended as references:

• Austern [2] - Mathew Austern's introduction to the STL using the concept/model style of presentation. Austern wrote the WWW STL documentation at SGI.
• Stroustrup [12] - Bjarne Stroustrup's introduction to C++ and the STL for those who already know some C++. Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++.
• Lippman and Lajoie [9] - Stanley Lippman and Josee Lajoie's C++ primer.
• Meyers [10] - Scott Meyers's book on ways to improve your C++ programs. Items 21 and 29 discuss the concept of const-correctness.
• Fabri et al. [6] - The CGAL design paper.
• Hert et al. [7] - The new CGAL kernel design paper.