Rating: 
Summary: good
Review: This is my first Sams book ever, and Ive always heard how bad Sams books are. All I can say is wow. It is a great book for a C Beginner. Teaching all the basics to get you going. My only concern is the title. I read the C section in a couple days and still refer to it as a reference for help. However I feel the title is quite misleading, I think thats why people hate Sams so much (or just the teach yourself series). Although I read the book faster than 21Days I am no expert even 21days after reading the book. What the book should state is it will teach your the basic building blocks in C such as the ANSI Libraries, and a few specific Compiler libraries. And should eventually help you understand C so you can learn other libraries available to you.
There are also some minor bad programming things taught such as using gets() for input however later in the book it although not obvious at first glance that it shows you a better way such as fgets(). Its also a reason I gave it 4 instead of 5, the other is the information on Linked Lists although its good it doesnt go indepth on Deleting a Node in a linked list, other than a small excerpt which doesnt make sense unless you read it a couple of times.
What I liked were the Exercises, without them I probably wouldnt have learnt as quickly my only thing about them is that some of them supply answers although this is good it was a bit tempting to just use the answer.
Rating: 
Summary: Recommended by Informatics for Students...
Review: This is the book suggested by my Institute which is Informatics Computer Institute. So recommending this to others is a vital way to learn C in just 21 days while studying the same Course or Program given by the school. Since I wanted to learm programming so my friends who are programmers recommend me this book at a start-up kit for learning C++ and the visual counter-part of it.So if you're an Informatics Student and want a book about C Programming and learning at your own pace then I recommend this... good luck!
Rating:
Summary: wow...i'm impressed
Review: Wow, this book was helpful. It was explanitive and really helped me to learn C. If you want to learn C, I recomend this book as a firm foothold, not a mile deep ditch.
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