There are no pirates in the book, neither is there a small pouch filled with gold doubloons; instead, for the C programmer, there's something a whole lot more valuable.

This book and CD combination contains hundreds of C and C++ tools and source code segments collected from 10 years of the C/C++ Users' Journal.

If you can think of it, it's probably in here. From artificial intelligence routines to C pre-processors, games, text editors and 3-D, renderers there's something for programmers of all skill levels.

This collection of code also covers a multitude of platforms and operating systems dating back to the 8-bit days of CPM and runs up to code compliant with the current Windows API.

The printed book acts as a reference to the attached CD-ROM, containing brief notes on each of the included code segments. It's nicely annotated and is indexed by detail, subject keyword, title and platform in addition to the HTML front-end on the disk which makes the whole package a breeze to navigate.