Practical C Programming, 3rd Edition

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Summary: Best C book I have Ever read
Review: Undoubtedly the best C book I have ever read. Stresses readability of code over size. Demonstrates how to effectively Debug code, how to optimize code, and gives down to earth practical instruction on C programming. I would recomend this book to anyone wanting to learn C, or to anyone who knows C and wants to further their knowledge of good C programming theory.

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Summary: This is the best introductory C book I have read.
Review: Very clearly written and easy to understand, Practical C Programming is quite possibly the best introductory C book around. Not only does it plainly and cleary explain such things as declarations, expressions, arrays, qualifiers, etc., but it also gives proper advice on style, debugging, and commenting. Unlike some of the huge "paperweight" programming books, this one is thin, small, and worth its weight in gold.

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Summary: BEST C BOOK EVER
Review: Well i don't know who could not give this book 5 stars i've been reading C and C++ books since the age of 15 and the only complete... book very concise and very clear strong emphasis on style book i have read is this one. This is one of those books you must have to truely understand C. cant wait for another one.

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Summary: Huh?
Review: What is everyone talking about this is a C programming book. Alot of people are saying this is good for learning C++ or that it's is good to learn the basics of C++. I've never read it but the title says C so what does that tell you about how much C++ is covered.

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Summary: Not a strong book on C at all....
Review: When I was introduced to the world of C ten years ago in college, I thought this was a good book. It's easy to read, it helped me get a couple of simple concepts under my belt right away, etc. However now that I have learned much more about the language I can say that I have many issues with it. For example, teaching people to cast every atomic statement with a return value to "void" -- e.g., every time they use printf, he puts a cast to "void" in front of it. Come on, if it's auto duration the stack will get wound down just fine. Has anybody *ever* crashed a machine by calling printf without casting it to void (that wouldn't have crashed otherwise?) And he also does not really explain storage classes well... if at all. Whether something is declared in file scope or in a function (or is static, or extern, or volatile) has large design implications other than "put related stuff together in 1 file". What about sharing data you don't want to pass around to 10 different functions? I just think this was glossed over. And what about compilation sequence points -- a major source of bugs -- e.g., will "y[x]=x++" work? This book wasn't awful, but it certainly was not NEARLY as good as "Schaum's College Outline: C Programming" which is just effing fantastic, and obviously the K&R bible is an eternal classic that some programmers will probably literally want placed in their caskets someday. But for an O'Reilly book this was one was kind of *too* friendly, fluffy and oversimplified. It is has pictures of little fairies waving magic wands. It's cute but come on... this language isn't for Mac users... true, pure C will always be for *nix programmers, fans of AT&T labs and the original UCB tinkerers and tokers whose genius has been parasitized for decades (what language is *your* DB engine, web server, compiler or interpreter written in?) Keep the fluff off the shelves and leave room for the good books. I like O'Reilly but this book went to market prematurely.

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Summary: Terrible .....Just Terrible
Review: With its Bright Purple pages and unclear explainations in this book . I couldnot find a worse book to read on C . If you are a newbie to C find another book this book will only make you run away from C. This book should be givin to people who have already read 2 begginner books on C.