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(C++) Boost.Graph

Boost.Graph is a Boost library to work with graphs.

Boost.Graph examples

• 1: four human names and their relationships + plotting (naive)
• 2: four human names and their relationships + plotting (better)
• 3: four human names and their relationships + plotting (good)
• 4: four human names and their relationships displayed in Qt

Personal experciences with Boost.Graph

I have been experimenting with Boost.Graph since 2006 and I both use the documentation on the Boost website [1] and the book [2].

• Boost.Graph seems like the most type-safe extendable graph library around: learning it will pay off!
• Boost.Graph requires a good compiler, like GCC
• The book [2] will not help a beginner: all code snippets are written 'too smart', where a beginner might prefer four easy-to-understand lines, instead of one using magic. Most code snippets are scattered as part of a complete project, where a beginner might prefer simple short projects
• The website [1] will not help a beginner, for the same reasons as above
• I have never found Boost.Graph documentation or code snippets a beginner would understand (except for (hopefully) at my website), as if nobody understands Boost.Graph and/or everybody that understands Boost.Graph cannot explain simply anymore
• I learned most of Boost.Graph from my IDE ( the helpful Qt Creator): by viewing the code that failed, I could understand what was expected for me. I would never have understood Boost.Graph if I would have used a text editor for programming

References

1. Boost page of Boost.Graph
2. Jeremy G. Siek, Lie-Quan Lee, Andrew Lumsdaine. The Boost Graph Library. 2002. ISBN: 0-201-72914-8.

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