Object-Oriented Multithreading Using C++ [With *]

by Tracey Hughes, Cameron Hughes, Tracey Hughes

Book Overview

A developer's guide to writing thread-safe object-oriented applications. Drawing on years of programming experience, Cameron and Tracey Hughes provide a building-block approach to developing multithreaded applications in C++. This book offers programmers the first comprehensive explanation of multithreading techniques and principles for objects and class libraries. It teaches C++ programmers everything they'll need to build applications that cooperate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471180122
• ISBN13: 9780471180128
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The complete guide for multithreaded application development

This is the ultimate book for any experienced C++ programmer who is new to the field of multi-threaded application development. If you are the kind of guy who learns by writing or reading lines of code then this book is not for you but if you want a solid foundation to build future multi threaded applications then look no further. The authors take you through all the concepts and the philosophies behind robust multi-threaded application development. I wish the authors had not included any APIs from any specific platforms. The building blocks and the techniques are all that are needed and you get them in abundance in this book. That would have reduced the price of the book. All the same money well spent.

In addition to my previous note

I read the reviews on this page, and thought I have to add a couple of words to what I've already said. I think the negative reviews are somewhat unfair--there is nothing ungrammatical about the book (definitely not by today's standards of technical writing--go MS Press for the mainstream .) While the book contains much vapour and is wildly overpriced--imho--on the balance isn't bad. I wish it was half-the price and half the size though .

Disregard my 5 stars. I don't know how to rate it.

That's the weirdest book ever. It has some rather interesting parts, but those amount to about 10% of the volume. The rest is "fattening up". Why does a book of this type contain an unbearably long coverage of basic C++ concepts is beyond me--a beginner wouldn't buy this book, a user comfortable with C++ doesn't need those endless pages with trivialities. I wish it was a 50-page, thirteen-dollar book (most likely that's why it is so padded--the price is well above $13 .) There are, I want to stress, a few good sections there, but mostly it's vapour. If you're rich--buy it, there's something there, if not, peruse in the bookstore , and put it back on the shelf. I hope it ends up in a bargain section where you could get it--after the price is right...

An excellent complete reference to Multithreading

This book offers an excellent treatment of the problems associated with multithreading and the code to work around them. It is an invaluable book to which one will often refer. For the serious reader, one who is interested in the details as this book is very thorough.

Absolutely the BEST!

If you're doing Posix threads in OO and in C++, this book covers the intermediate concepts and builds to more advanced issues. Well thought out. Well designed. If you're doing (or going to do) a distributed, multiThreaded applications, you will thank God every day that you found this book before you started. Unless, of course, you wrote another book on Posix threads. I didn't so I did. :)