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C: A Software Engineering Approach
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Author: Peter A. Darnell, Philip E. Margolis
List Price: $54.95
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ISBN: 0387946756
Publisher: Springer Verlag (January, 1997)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 134,068
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Best Starter Guide for Professional Programming in C
15 years ago I came across this book accidentally in a second hand shop primarily selling Springer books.
I already had K&R because it was best known, but was not really satisfied with it as a transitioner from Fortran.
This book had all I needed, especially on pointers (see all other reviews).
I always enjoyed reading it. It's not about becoming a C obsfucation contest winner,
but about C as a tool for software engineers.
Combined with Harbison & Steele's "A C Reference Manual" and Hanson's "C Interfaces and Implementations",
which are my other most referenced C books, you will have a solid basic library to rely on as a C programmer.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Best C or programming book I've come across
I've been using a previous edition for about 10 years now. This is the best C book I've encountered. It is also an excellent general programing (software engineering) book. It gets back to the basic principles of good programing, something that is often lost in the syntactical complexities that many books/courses concentrate on. Good programing is a mindset and collection of (good) practices which this book goes into. The fact that is focuses on C rather than C++ is nice because the additional baggage (syntax) of C++ would obscure the priciples they are getting at. I am a software engineer for a large computer company. My wife selected this book when she taught an introductory programing course at U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in the early 90's.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent Beginners Book
This is an excellent book for someone learning C. It is one of the most understandable that I have come across.
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