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There are lots of introductory C books, but this edition of Practical C Programming is the one that has the no-nonsense, practical approach that has made Nutshell Handbooks(R) so popular. C programming is more than just getting the syntax right. Style and debugging also play a tremendous part in creating programs that run well and are easy to maintain. Practical C Programming teaches you not only the mechanics of programming, but also how to create programs that are easy to read, debug, and maintain. This third edition introduces popular Integrated Development Environments on Windows systems, as well as UNIX programming utilities, and features a large statistics-generating program to pull together the concepts and features in the language.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
great for self-learners, 2006-08-03
For anyone who has suffered through trying to read a beginners book on C only to end up getting lost half way through, you will find this book a huge relief. This book stresses things like how code so from a perspective of communicating logically. And how to comment thoroughly so their is no doubt what the code does. This is not the end all book on C, so you will want to move on to more advanced books on C after this one.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 File Creation!, 2006-05-19
This book starts off very strong and the author is very clear and concise. I learned alot... but then something happens... the author decides to wait for covering floats until after he covers File I/O and he rushes through that. I was completely left hanging with not one example of writing data to a file and the author expected me to be able to complete an exercise in which I need to write data to a file. After this...the next chapter back tracks to covering Floats... which should have been covered previously with the other data types.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Perfect for beginners, but recommend a second book!, 2006-02-08
First of all, this book was absolutely wonderful. It did a very good job teaching me how to write C with very little knowledge of the language. However, there were some things that the author did (and skipped over) that are cleared up in "The C Programming Language", by Dennis Ritchie. I would definitely recommend this book to someone who doesn't have very much knowledge of C, because the writing style is clear and easy to follow. The author, for the most part, does a great job of explaining difficult concepts in an easy to understand manner; such as linked lists and trees. Once again, I would recommend another book as a follow up, such as "Expert C Programming".
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A very good book for beginners... , 2006-01-14
This is a very good book, but it has two problems:
1.- It is a little bit messy. For example, there are some control statements that are not with the others, not even in the same chapter... they are almost at the end of the book! why?! (The author said that those statements "are hardly ever used in real programming", which is true... but I think that order is a priority in a programming book).
2.- THIS BOOK IS VERY GOOD, but FOR BEGINNERS.
If you are NOT an expert C programmer, this book will be very good for you. You'll learn a lot of basic and very useful features about C language; you'll also learn some advanced features. But if you are an advanced C programmer, maybe you will learn just a little bit more than you already know...
However, this book has A LOT OF VERY INTERESTING INFORMATION (not only related with C language), for example: when you make a "right shift"... the new bits are 1 or 0?, or which operation is more "expensive" (slower): a printf() or a malloc()? etc., etc...
So, I think this is not a bad book... It is like an easier version of "The C programming language (Kernighan/Ritchie)", I mean: A very very good book for beginners... it is also a nice book for advanced programmers.
If you want to learn C from the very beginning, I recommend this book.
If you already know C and you want to know ADVANCED features... well... you can have this book in your collection but... get an advanced book.
P.D:
You can see the index and the table of contents of this book... SEE IT BEFORE YOU BUY IT!!! : )
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 My preferred book on C, 2006-01-04
This book follows a logical order and is written in a clear, easy to read style. I have 6 books on C on my shelf and this is my favorite.
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