Teach Yourself C

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Summary: Excellent book
Review: Nicely paced! Clearly and informally written. Full of examples. Explains many of the gotcha's one can inadvertently walk into when generating classes. If you know C, this is a quick trip into C++. My copy is one of the few books I have that is dog-earred

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Summary: A very good book.
Review: One of the best tutorials on C. Do the problems at the end of each chapter, and you will be sure to remember what you have read for years to come. The answers are in the back of the book, in case you get stuck, or want to see how the master does it.

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Summary: Easy, and to the point.
Review: Teach yourself C is simply the best beginners C reference I have read. The explanations of subjects dont get bogged dont by attempts at humor, nor do they get sidetracked by long diatribes on barely relevant topics.

This book will guide you step by step, with very clear concise explanations of the topics, and will have plenty of reference material in the appencies.

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Summary: Presentation: Good, Accuracy: Fair
Review: The author presents the subject matter clearly. However, while referencing some of the topics he discusses with other books I currently use, he does seem to recommend programming methods that can lead to difficult debugging. This book may do better with a revision to eliminate code style that can lead to sloppy program design. Okay as a support text used in a situation where the author's suggestions are balanced with those of other author/programmers.

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Summary: So many books that are better ...
Review: The book is not evil, just bland and useless. Ivor Horton, Al Stevens, Keeneth Reek, Steve Oualline and of course Kernighan/Ritchie are much more highly recomended ... I don't know who the intended audience is ... It was forced upon me for a class.

At least it's not difficult, just no foundation to build on when it's over.

This may be fine for making some lame video game or a menu for your mom, but I still recomend you get a more stable foundation at a lower level, hey, even Linux Programming from the WROX guys ...

Also add Design Patterns, Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides, and the Practice of Programing by Kernighan and Pike ... did I mention Pointers on C by Reek ... of yeah and Thinking in C++ by Bruce Eckle and Accelerated C++ by Koenig and Moo?...

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Summary: Confusing, Non-User Friendly, Not for Beginners
Review: The book tried to do too much in too few pages. Important and arcane C concepts were often simply glossed over in a few paragraphs and/or given superficial treatment in a few pages. I didn't get the feeling that one chapter built on another. The language was often (unnecessarily) overly technical. The book has made a decent reference for use during projects. It is also not bad for building some basic programming logic skills. As for developing a beginning-intermediate understanding of C on your own, forget it

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Summary: A great first book
Review: The way this book is written, it'll have you up and running in no time. I used this book to great effect in a C++ course ( as a complement to Bjarne Stoustrup's book). Highly recommended for beginners!

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Summary: An excellent introduction to C
Review: This book describes C concepts clearly and concisely with wonderfully clear examples and comprehensive appendices. Highly reccomended for those with no prior knowlege of C

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Summary: Going from C to C++
Review: This book is an excellent guide to help all C programmers migrate to the world of C++. Herbert Schildt does a great job of explaining the similarities and differences between C and C++.

Topics Covered: Classes, pointers/references, overloading functions, operator overloading, C++ standard I/O streams, virtual functions

Each section has easy to follow examples followed by questions to test your understanding.

I've loved every book I have ever read from Herbert Schildt! His books are easy to understand especially for the beginner trying to grasp concepts.

However, due to the date of publication many needed C++ topics are missing: templates, exceptions, namespace, STL (Standard Template Library)...

Just get an updated edition!

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Summary: A BOOK THAT YOU GOT TO HAVE
Review: This book is best book I ever read for C++. I have read tons of book and nothing is compaired to this one. Herber Schildt puts a great amout of time to explain everything in the chapters. The part I really like about this book is that, you have exercises that you can do to see if you understand the chapter. I think you are wasting your time reading my review, you should be buying the book right now.