The book provides practical recommendations for designing and programming in C++. Rules are set out that allow the programmer to choose between various methods of program implementation - inheritance and templates, templates and pointers to base classes, open and closed inheritance, private inheritance and nested classes, virtual and non-virtual functions, etc. To illustrate all the principles, the latest language features from the ISO/ANSI C++ standard are used - intraclass constant initialization, namespaces and class member templates. Covers the standard template library and classes like string and vector