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Summary: An excellent C book
Review: I am currently working through this text and find it pretty difficult for a beginner but very much worth the effort. I own about every C book out there and like to compare the way different authors handle the subject
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Summary: Very Informative and Straight to The Point
Review: A good book base on C Language. A foundation for students of learning computer languages. Very informative and useful. Recommended to beginners who like to learn C.
Very straight to the point. I like it.
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Summary: The most useful, thorough, and readable book on ANSI C.
Review: I learned C with this book. I think it's not too bashful to say that it is the best C book on the planet. Here's why:
A. The authors spare no "idle talk" in getting their point across. B. The material is very readable and very organized. C. Programming dissections, computer science concepts, data structures, even operating system ideas are all contained in this wonderful, small (easy to carry) text.
ABC - A Book on C. get it?? ;-]
In short, I highly recommend this book to students, professionals, and just about anyone who wishes to learn the syntax, the semantics, and more importantly, the APPLICATIONS of the ANSI C programming language
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Summary: Dense, but to the point.
Review: An excellent (but dense) ref. for beginning C programmers. It lacks
"direction" towards pointers, but is otherwise a beautiful starting
point. Other student programmers in the lab always reached for
*my* 'A Book on C'. Helpfull hints on C++ are also given.
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Summary: There are much better C books around!
Review: I bought this book because it was a set text for my C programming class. I have to add a review, because contrary to most reviews I read on this site, I found this book extremely difficult to get any useful information out of. The examples are not practical, when they provide a sample program they totally disect it in to a long-winded discussion with much more detail than is needed. They take about six pages to go through a ten line program.
If you have some programming experience in another language and just need a reference (as I did), this is NOT the book to buy! I recommend "C: How to Program" by Deitel & Deitel, which I have been using instead of this stupid book through the duration of my course.
Maybe this might be halfway useful if you have never programmed before and need a really slow baby-steps book, but I really believe that it is not a good C reference.
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Summary: Buying my second copy
Review: I got this originally for an advanced class in C when I had already been programming in it for a few years. I had been using K&R as the bible but K&R is a little too terse for me and I needed some examples. I have been programming in C for 20 years but I have a terrible memory and always need to refer to some part of it for syntax and usage. This book is just right for me.It is so useful I keep it with me all the time. It got so dog-eared I threw it out and bought a second.
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Summary: Makes it as simple as A-B-C
Review: This is a wonderful, concise book on C programming, possibly the best I've encountered. The examples are illustrative with detailed explanations on every piece of the code. I'd suggest it for all level of programming, whether you're just starting or for review.
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Summary: Excellent reference guide
Review: A BOOK ON C was the main textbook used in a freshman college course I took on the C programming language. As an introduction to C aimed at people who are completely unfamiliar with the language and the programming concepts behind it, this book is not terribly helpful. Some of the examples are a bit obscure, while some details are explained too quickly. However, as a general reference guide for someone who is already familiar with some of the fundamentals of the C programming language, this book is invaluable. I found this book to be quite handy for use in more advanced classes, as well as in programming projects done in a work setting. The layout is very orderly, and it covers virtually all of the topics that the average programmer needs. It doesn't get bogged down with numerous examples that can double the page count in other, more introductory programming books. Instead, authors Al Kelley and Ira Pohl merely give one or two examples and leave it to the reader to pick up the meaning that they were conveying. In just about every case, this works out to the book's advantage. Instead of having to wade through numerous examples to uncover what it was you were looking for, you can get what you need at first glance and then get back to whatever it was you were doing. This is the book's greatest strength as a guide; no one wants to spend a lot of time flipping back and forth between numerous references just to find one item. The clear layout and the straightforward examples save the programmer quite a bit of time. It also has a closing chapter that goes into a short introduction to C++ and Object Oriented Programming. While this is by no means enough to teach anything more than the bare fundaments of OOP, it does serve as a nice introduction to the topic, which would be quite helpful for any programmer looking to go beyond their current level of knowledge. All in all, I highly recommend this book for programmers who are already familiar with some of the fundamental C elements. If you're looking for a reference guide to material you already know, or looking to plug some gaps in your knowledge, then this book should be quite helpful for you. (FYI, this is a list of topics that the book covers: Introductory C Overview, Syntax, Data Types, Flow Control, Functions, Arrays, Pointers, Strings, Bitwise Operations, Enumeration Types, the Preprocessor, Structures/Unions, Lists and Sorting, I/O, the OS, Multiple Processes, OOP. In addition to these, other topics are touched on and developed, such as information on the standard included library header files and comparisons between ANSI C and traditional C. Standard and helpful algorithms for common tasks are also discussed.)
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