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Summary: Good for beginners who want to learn C
Review: Being a younger programmer with very little experience in programming, this was the book that I learned from. This book has a great approch, and stresses not only C coding but style as well. One of the best things about this book is the exercises that it gives, at the end of each chapter. This definetly is one of the better C programming books to learn from. I recomend it to every begining programmer.
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Summary: For those with common sense
Review: I am new to programming and have tried several other C books, but nothing like this one. I think the best part about this book is on pointer, ch. 13 show good graphical description for readers to understand with ourt confussion. if you are trying to learn visual C++ compiler, it uses 4.0 or later and I do not think it was intended to teach visual C++. I agree with some of the negative reviews that this book may not be good for everyone, but I would strongly recommand to those who have good common sense.
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Summary: For those with common sense
Review: I am new to programming and have tried several other C books, but nothing like this one. I think the best part about this book is on pointer, ch. 13 show good graphical description for readers to understand with ourt confussion. if you are trying to learn visual C++ compiler, it uses 4.0 or later and I do not think it was intended to teach visual C++. I agree with some of the negative reviews that this book may not be good for everyone, but I would strongly recommand to those who have good common sense.
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Summary: good book
Review: I am torn as to give it 4 or 5 stars. I'd really like to give it 4 1/2 stars but I have 4 or 5 to choose from.I don't know if it's just that I've read about pointers so many times and finally got it but this book seems to me to have the best explanation on them yet. I mean most books tell you about them but in trying to describe them they loose me on why I should use them. This book gave a quick explanation of what they are and then showed a practical example of how they are used. To me, this was very important. This is also the first book I've read that really explained the preprocessor to me and now I finally understand that #include "whatever.h" really isn't c-code but rather preprocessor stuff. It contained very good explanations of this and macros. While I don't know that I would recommend this to a beginner, it certainly helps the intermediate programmer (which I feel that I am) move up a little. It is also one of the first technical books that I really didn't want to put down and that I read like a novel. While I skipped over most of the exercises, as I felt I would go back to them, I felt a lot of the questions that are in the book are good examples of how to spot common errors. Mostly stupid programmer errors like forgetting to close a comment which I think helps make the book more "practical" like the title suggests. If you write code for a living, this probably isn't the book for you. If you don't already know a programming language more complicated than BASIC or don't have some basic knowledge of C then this book is not for you. HOWEVER, if you've taken a class in c, read a book but didn't really feel like you've really understood c, this book is for you.
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Summary: Not as helpful as other ORA books
Review: I bought this books because of the usefulness of other ORA I've bought. This one just wasn't as good. When the book contained the information I was looking for, it was presented well and very helpful (assuming I could find it). But I found the index to be incomplete making it difficult to find many topics, and many other common features which I would have found useful were left out all together. This is more or less adequate, especially for a beginning programmer, but I'm sure there's a better book out there.
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Summary: A mediocre book from a great publishing house
Review: I felt this book is structured in an awkward manner and very tough to use as a reference. It certainly does not live up to the high standard of other Nutshell books I've read. I would barely recommend it for beginners who want a tutorial-based introduction. For anyone else, it's not worth the price.
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Summary: Quite a useful book, for any programmer!
Review: I judged this book not so much on how it taught C, but rather, how it taught to write programs. In that respect, it was supreme. I am more of a perl programmer, but the tips here on professional "effective" programming were quite useful for any language I know. As a book on C, it is also quite good. There might be better books out there, but I am happy to say that I am much more comfortable with C than I was before. The only complaint is that the problems in each chapter (quite useful for practice) didn't have answers in the back (such as O'Reilly's Learning Perl). Anyhow, worth the time and money in my humble opinion. Thanks Steve!
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I loved the book. It was rather short for a total language, but it sure did tach me great programming techniques as well as the language. I was very happy how Oualline constructed book. His writing style is great for teaching. The best thing about the book is how he doesn't assume you're a total idiot, you've got a mind and it works as well. I _can not_ stop reccomending his chapter on pointers. It's the best ever. This book is a great stepping stone into the language of C.
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Summary: A disappointment
Review: I must admit that this book was a disappointment, below the standard of other ORA books. I suppose it is supposed to be targeted towards those who are just learning to program; however, the value of C as a first language is, in my opinion, questionable. I found that many topics which interested me (and would have been relevant) were only touched lightly if at all, and its poor glossary and index rendered it a poor reference work. However, the sections on coding style are very good.
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Summary: The BEST C book this C programmer has ever read!
Review: I own literally shelves full of C and C++ books, and I've been programming in C professionally for almost ten years. This is THE book to have on C. I insist that every junior programmer I work with has a copy! It addresses not only programming syntax but good software engineering practices, and it has the most realistic real-world types of problems I have ever seen. When he asks you to find the bug in a section of code, those are exactly the type of bugs I see in novice programmers' code again and again. C is not a language for people who need to be coddled, and this book doesn't hold your hand; it just gives you lots of great information on C and how to do good software engineering. If you are a serious C professional, you should own this book.
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