Sams Teach Yourself C for Linux Programming in 21 Days

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Summary: Best book on C for the newbie
Review: This book really helped me grasp the great power and usefulness of the C language. If you have ever done any programming before in languages such as Visual Basic, Qbasic, etc.. you will grasp the C consept very quickly. I went to a book store and paid over what [what was on site]...but never the less this is a great book and my rateing show's such. This book was well planed and has drawings etc.. very nice as far as programming books go, pointers and structures and unions and all that good stuff is once again also very well explained and used throughout the book. One more very nice thing about this book is the amount of source code, and if you are lazy <g> the source code is also on the CD, on almost every other page there is example source code. All in all this is a wonderful book, if you want to learn C from the ground up, give this book a shot, im sure glad I did.

Rating:
Summary: Best book on C for the newbie
Review: This book really helped me grasp the great power and usefulness of the C language. If you have ever done any programming before in languages such as Visual Basic, Qbasic, etc.. you will grasp the C consept very quickly. I went to a book store and paid over what [what was on site]...but never the less this is a great book and my rateing show's such. This book was well planed and has drawings etc.. very nice as far as programming books go, pointers and structures and unions and all that good stuff is once again also very well explained and used throughout the book. One more very nice thing about this book is the amount of source code, and if you are lazy the source code is also on the CD, on almost every other page there is example source code. All in all this is a wonderful book, if you want to learn C from the ground up, give this book a shot, im sure glad I did.

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Summary: Must buy
Review: This book was great. Simple and full of examples. If you're just starting out in programming in the linux enviroment, then you must buy this book. Not much more I can say, buy it.

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Summary: Never too Wordy- Great for the beginning linux expert
Review: This book was well planned, and easy to follow; I had a great time learning about C. In the end of the book, they teach you a bit about gtk and gtk+ (at least i was using this bcuz of the book) by building a simple wordpad/text editor. This book was just what i needed after reading the other 'regular C in 21' book from SAMS Publishing <- comes with a bonus week. By the way, that was a very good book as well. -Although you will find alot of the sample code most monotonous because they use the same examples in most areas. <How many times will they use the same shaky list_it program? (:I still have issues with some of that code:)>
These being the only true downfalls, a very well organized book that much can be learned from.
Hope this was helpful-

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Summary: This really is the book
Review: This is one of the best programming books I have ever worked with/used. I had a program which I had written in Perl to parse and search unformatted log files. It worked, but very slowly. I picked up this book and thought I would try and rewrite it in C during the holidays. Four days latter it was done. I felt like I had really accomplished something, rewritten my program (which is now over a 100 times faster), and learned some C.
The best thing was that I never ran into an example that didn't work and the examples were so straight forward I didn't have to write and try every one. ( I'm of the ilk that usually writes and tries all the examples). I wish they could all be this good.

Rating:
Summary: This really is the book
Review: This is one of the best programming books I have ever worked with/used. I had a program which I had written in Perl to parse and search unformatted log files. It worked, but very slowly. I picked up this book and thought I would try and rewrite it in C during the holidays. Four days latter it was done. I felt like I had really accomplished something, rewritten my program (which is now over a 100 times faster), and learned some C.
The best thing was that I never ran into an example that didn't work and the examples were so straight forward I didn't have to write and try every one. ( I'm of the ilk that usually writes and tries all the examples). I wish they could all be this good.

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Summary: 5 Stars for this Great intro to Programming and C!
Review: This text was my first real encounter with programming (besides, as some others have written, BASIC and LOGO on the Apple II many moons ago...)

I am a linux/unix hobbyists always trying to understand more, and this book was a great intro to programming in general. I also highly recomend "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold. I read this a few months before really digging into this C book. Code is a much more conceptual book, but has great simple analogies that make you really understand what makes computing possible, and how basic logic gates work, and their potential.

de Castro Lopo's book gave me a great real-life intro to programming and C in general. Variables, loops, and basic decision making are explained clearly and illustrated with great examples of actual C code, which you can write, compile, and run to test. (and then change around to really understand whats going on...) I have since been able to pick up books on Ruby, Python, and BASH scripting, and at least understand what is going on with variables and loops without even knowing the details of these languages. Admittedly, I am not at the point where I am fluently solving problems with any of these languages, but I now have the confidence to take it to that next step. If I had spent more time with the examples in this book, I probably would be writing more programs.

Thanks!

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