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Summary: Misleading Title
Review: 24 hours..hmmm, not sure thats very accurate. Maybe to someone familiar with C programming, but if you are a complete 'newbie' to C, you really need to learn the _basics_ before buying this book. There are mixed reviews, but you have to consider what you really want from this book. If you have practiced a bit of C and want to widen your core skills, this is the book for you. I found this book better to use as a reference, rather than a learning source.
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Summary: A Good Beginning Book...
Review: A while back I bought this book, backtracking from C++ to C. I took off on this book, skimming through the first few chapters, until I finally started to work on the examples. I went through, but once and a while the book seems to take off and it takes a few runs through the chapter onces again to get the hang of it. In sum, I would recommend this book with another reference. You really need a second book whenever you are learning another programming language to cross-reference.
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Summary: A Good Beginning Book...
Review: A while back I bought this book, backtracking from C++ to C. I took off on this book, skimming through the first few chapters, until I finally started to work on the examples. I went through, but once and a while the book seems to take off and it takes a few runs through the chapter onces again to get the hang of it. In sum, I would recommend this book with another reference. You really need a second book whenever you are learning another programming language to cross-reference.
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Summary: Very good book.
Review: Although the book is certainly not supposed to be a 24-hour book (it took me way more than that), it is VERY well writen. Each section follows easily from the previous one, and all problems emphasize on the structure of the given examples. One negative thing: The Appendices were missing. I had to call the publishers to send them to me via email, as an attachment. In general, if you are just starting C this will help you as nothing else. But it is good for referencing too, I find.
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Summary: The source code is in c and the compiler is c++. Change one
Review: At first look the book looks great for the beginner. However, the user needs to have first hand knowledge of the use of source code and compling the code. The author needs to give directions to the user.
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Summary: A Good Handbook
Review: First, I should admit that I spent more than 24 hours to learn C. In fact, I learned the basis concepts of C programming from this book, and then, gained real experience by taking part in a project. But I still keep the book on my desk as a handbook, because it contains the basic and clearly-written concepts and examples which I need to refer to from time to time.
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Summary: For beginners only
Review: For someone with little experience in programming, this book is an excellent introduction to the syntax of C and the various components of a C program. The approach is to present a series of small programs that do little more than display the results so that a novice can see the operation(s) in action. However, if you have some programming experience, you will most likely be bored, and that state will appear fairly quickly.
Most of the programs are under thirty lines, which includes the header for the main function, comment for program name, include lines and separate lines for the opening and closing curly braces. This is not to say that all of the major features of the language are not demonstrated, in that respect, the author is thorough. What is lacking is some sense of what the language can do, and that really cannot be done with programs that do nothing but demonstrate.
One feature that I found rather odd is that the author puts in way too much unnecessary documentation. Comments like /* main() function *.
main() /* GetDateTime() definition */
void GetDateTime(void) /* function definition */
void StrCopy(char *str1, char *str2) are totally unnecessary and clutter the code.
On the good side, the author does a good job demonstrating all the major features of the C language by showing each of them in action. However, on the bad side, that is all that is done and you get no real sense of how the features can be combined to do something useful. With few exceptions, the programs do not show you how to do anything of value.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I absolutely did not know ANYTHING about programming. First chapter was a very simplified version of what will become a more complex outcome further on. The rest is filling in on details of math and vocabulary. By the fourth chapter it was very clear to me what is needed. In conclusion of the book you will be programming. Ive bought this book twice because by chapter six someone stole it. After reading this book i have understood most programming languages alot easier.
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Summary: Great Book with one fault
Review: I am a complete novice to the world of programming and this book gave me everything I needed to know. The only gripe I have is that this only tells you about the code itself, so if you have problems with the compiler than your out of luck. So I suggest this book to beginners and then move on to a more program specific book like Teach yourself visual c++ in 24 hours.
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Summary: Does its job... but no more
Review: I am a seasoned VB programmer who was thinking of learning some other, more low level languages for my personal interest. I purchased this book since I wanted to quickly get an introduction to C before exploring it more thouroughly. I am about halfway through this book and am quite pleased. It clearly explains the concepts covered and has very demonstrative examples. I found the excercises at the end to be a little too easy unfortunatly. The answers were generally only 10-20 lines long. They each seemed to cover one point and one point only. This is what I believe is the main problem with the book. It does not tie concepts together very well. On the whole a good book, teaches the syntax but much more is needed to gain more than a rudamentary understanding of the language.
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