With more than 1.5 million programming books sold, author Herb Schildt helps employees of many world-wide institutions and corporations learn STL programming. Start off with the basic history of the Standard Template (STL) and its recent standardization, and finish with a complete understanding of the advanced power and versatility behind the STL code. Thorough coverage of how STL simplifies development using C++ templates for container classes--illustrating why STL code is easy-to-read, fast, and highly customizable.