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Summary: The decline of productivity in the late-20th century
Review: Will be traced to the development of the C programming language by K&R. Who needed type-checking? Who needed safety? Who needed clarity or maintainability?For a complete description of this time-bomb read this book.
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Summary: Concise, but too complicated for learning C
Review: If you already know C, read this book. The examples are so challenging, it will be a test of your skill to comprehend them. If you want to learned the language, try another text. At least read a "Dummies" first.
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Summary: Not merely ``The Bible'' -- but the inspired KJV!
Review: ``Canonical'' and ``essential'' don't even begin to do justice to this slim classic. If one must have one book for the C language, this is _the_ one. Much like the C language itself, K&R2 is a book that emphasizes word economy and content over style. Less than 200 pages (sans references), it's not a quick, breezy read. It is strongly advised that a thorough contemplation of each page occur before moving on to the next. Coupled with a desire to master the language and a nominal amount of brainpower, one can truly grasp this powerful programming language thanks to the lucid writing of K&R2. Please pay no attention to those few ``reviewers'' offering anything less than praise for this book. K&R2 is not a ``Dummies'' or ``21 Days'' superficial view of the language. The C programming language is not intended for ``dummies''. This book rightly makes no attempt to appeal to that group.
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Summary: no-nonsense intro to C for serious learners
Review: This is a no-nonsense intro to C. Contrary to some opinions, I think it is a good book to learn from for its brevity and straightforwardness. However, if you are considering C++, read Bjarne Stroustrup's book on C++ instead.
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Summary: The most elegant programming book I have ever read
Review: This book is not "for Dummies". It assumes that you already have some knowledge of structured programming languages (i.e. Pascal). For example, this book spends four well-written pages explaining everything you need to know about functions. If you don't know what a function is, this will clearly not be enough. However, if you do know about functions, this book will not drone on and on for an entire chapter or two on the subject like some of the foot-crunching tomes the size of an encyclopdia. The book is expensive ($40) for its size (approx. 250pgs.), but it is worth every penny. To quote the authors: "C is not a big language, and it is not served well by a big book." As a bonus, almost anything you need to know about C can be found in seconds using the excellent index. It should be noted that this is a language reference and will NOT tell you how to use your editing environment or compiler. In summary, intermediate or advanced programmers should be able to learn C with reasonable proficiency in a short amount of time.
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Summary: A good book for programmers with some experience!
Review: I find this book to be excellently suited for programmers with a reasonably good experience in programming. I feel that this book would not be the one that I would recommend for beginners. A simple familiarity with basic programming concepts I feel, would NOT be adequate for a thorough utilization of this book. On the other hand, important concepts like pointers, structures, memory addressing have been dealt with very well in this book, and from a different direction than what I have seen in other C books. I also feel that the book teaches good programming methodology in an indirect way, through numerous examples, which have been written very concisely. For example, a program for string comparison, has been written so concisely in just a few lines that it does cause wonder at how neatly a program can be written. There are numerous such other examples throughout the book. To sum up, I feel that this book would be best approached to, AFTER gaining some initial feel in programming. I also find this book to be a good place for a quick and concise reference in programming situations.
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Summary: THe Best book on the C Language
Review: "The C Programming Language" is *the* book about this subject. Almost everything I know about this wonderful language came from this book. There are lots of *reallife* examples and nice exercises. If you want to lean C this book is what you need
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Summary: the easiest way to learn c
Review: i find this book as a very easy way to learn how to program in the c language. you don't have to read many words to understand any topic, and you don't have to look between the lines to find what you are looking for
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Summary: Can't rely only with this book!
Review: This book have strong point of bringing you the concept, algorithm, metaphor and things that you need to become a solid C programmer.
As for the basic approach and learning tool for C, I don't think you can't rely only to this book. You should also consider other newly published book about C.
For my opinion, I think this book will suited nicely for people that already have a quite basic knowledge of programming concept and computer term, then they'll get the best of this book.
But you should buy this, the BEST for C programmers
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Summary: Concise book
Review: This is a concise and descriptive book. It is usually known
to be the first book for any person interested in the "C" programming language. However, I think, it is the book
for the person that has already known "how to program"
in any other computer language. In other hand the book
is worthly short; It goes to the point
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