Rating:  Summary: 2 words: GREAT book Review: This book did all I asked it too. It taught me the whole C programming language flawlessly. And when you're done with it, it's the best reference you can have. The expensive price and the limited amount of pages once gave me second thoughts but I was wrong. You get every dollar's worth with this one!
Rating:  Summary: concise, literate, directed Review: Fantastic book, less than three hundred pages, adequate examples, encourages structured design. I teach at a community college, and use this book for instruction purposes. Do not let the '88 moniker discourage you -- there is a reason it has not been rewritten!
Rating:  Summary: Brilliant! Review: This is the definitive book for learning C. I learned efficiently through the detailed lessons, the example code, and the challenging excerises. It is wonderfully concise; the author's have obviously read Strunk and White's _The Elements of Style_, which is another brilliant book...
Rating:  Summary: A book for the Novice but NOT the Beginner Review: A warning to the beginner who buys this book; you probably won't be able to use it. The very first chapter goes through many things that you would already need to know C to follow and every chapter after looks at each part of the first chapter in detail. If you get this book, you should already know what an int, char, for(;;), while(), if() and the theory behind a function is. If you knew but forgot (like I had) it should come back like riding a bicyle though. BTW, I did not understand what a pointer was until I read this book, it has the best description I've seen.
Rating:  Summary: The book required by every C programmer Review: This book is the best book a serious C programmer can ever buy. The books that you get these days like learn in 24 hours or a week, are big fat, look good, teach a lot of graphics, but lack in true C content. But this one, is life time reference. Initially I found it disappointing, because it did not cover graphics, low level assembly. But as I began serious programming in C, I found this to be a life time reference. Any doubts, debates, .. go to this book. The authors also give a reference manual, if you do not want to read the book again. The exercises are challanging and very very creative. An expert should have this book and a beginner who buys this, is on his way to becoming an expert.
Rating:  Summary: It is an excellent book on C Review: It covers all of necessary parts of C languange, even though somewhere it is hard to be understood. Anyway, it is a good book.
Rating:  Summary: Not for new programers... Review: The book is not a good book if: a) you are a begginer and b) if you want a more modern approach to programming. The book was written when storage was expensive, hence it takes all the short cuts to save storage. This approach comes with a price. The code is not clear (and not documented well) especially if one is not familiar with C. For an excellent C book (begginers and experienced) first take a look at "Practical C Programming" from O'reilly.
Rating:  Summary: Yup this one is by far the best... Review: No experience required for this text.. this was written by the man who founded the language... who else would know more about it???? Hmmm I wonder... I use this book as reference and it has help me a great deal and every good programmer should give it a whirl..
Rating:  Summary: The best book on the subject that I've seen Review: This book is concise, easy-to-read, and to the point. If you're serious about learning the language, you really have no other choice: you *must* get this book. It manages to explain all the aspects of C in a no-nonsense way, making it easy to digest and an invaluable addition to your bookshelf.
Rating:  Summary: spectacular Review: The only C book you will ever need. It is concise and too the point
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