People keep asking me where to find good information on C++11. Until now I’ve had to point them to blogs, and say that we’re all working on revising our books but it’ll take a while. It’s been an unsatisfying answer.

Finally I have a C++11 “book” I can direct people to: Today Scott Meyers announced that his fully-annotated C++11 training materials are now up-to-date with the final published standard.

This is the best overview of C++11 available today, and it’s good:

Presentation Materials: Overview of the New C++ (C++11)
by Scott Meyers

PDF $29.95

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The PDF you’ll get is an exact snapshot of Scott’s full-color training materials on the day he generates the PDF. You’ll get not only the slides Scott shows in class, you’ll also get the accompanying notes—the very ones Scott uses. To see exactly what you’ll get you can view a free sample.

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Specification of the new version of C++ (“C++11”) is finally complete, and many compilers (e.g., Visual C++ and Gnu C++) already offer many features from the revised language. And such features! auto-declared variables reduce typing drudgery and syntactic noise; Unicode and threading support address important functionality gaps; and rvalue references and variadic templates facilitate the creation of more efficient, more flexible libraries. The standard library gains resource-managing smart pointers, new containers, additional algorithms, support for regular expressions, and more. Altogether, C++11 offers much more than “old” C++. This intensively technical seminar introduces the most important new features in C++11 and explains how to get the most out of them.

I like Scott’s terms: Free updates for life, including major revisions, so it’ll never be out of date. DRM-free, so that you can copy, annotate, and print as you like.

If you want to know about C++11, invest the $30. You won’t regret it.

Disclaimer: I have no financial interest in recommending Scott’s materials. I just think they’re excellent and everyone should know about them.