C for Dummies, Volume One & Two Bundle

Rating:
Summary: Excellent but too political.
Review: The amount of non-standard code and poor programming practices inside this book are astounding. Let me iterate that main() must return int. dos.h is not a standard header file. It must be understood that C is a portable language, with certain "built in" functions and header files. As a beginnier book, I believe that you should understand the actual language, before moving into different extensions of it. Many people do not use DOS/Windows for development. I use IRIX for instance. On an upside, the writer does have a sense of humour, which is the only thing that prevented me from throwing this book into the trash.