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Practical C Programming, 3rd Edition
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Author: Steve Oualline
List Price: $34.95
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ISBN: 1565923065
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates (03 August, 1997)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 33,955
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
good book
I am torn as to give it 4 or 5 stars. I'd really like to give it 4 1/2 stars but I have 4 or 5 to choose from.I don't know if it's just that I've read about pointers so many times and finally got it but this book seems to me to have the best explanation on them yet. I mean most books tell you about them but in trying to describe them they loose me on why I should use them. This book gave a quick explanation of what they are and then showed a practical example of how they are used. To me, this was very important. This is also the first book I've read that really explained the preprocessor to me and now I finally understand that #include "whatever.h" really isn't c-code but rather preprocessor stuff. It contained very good explanations of this and macros. While I don't know that I would recommend this to a beginner, it certainly helps the intermediate programmer (which I feel that I am) move up a little. It is also one of the first technical books that I really didn't want to put down and that I read like a novel. While I skipped over most of the exercises, as I felt I would go back to them, I felt a lot of the questions that are in the book are good examples of how to spot common errors. Mostly stupid programmer errors like forgetting to close a comment which I think helps make the book more "practical" like the title suggests. If you write code for a living, this probably isn't the book for you. If you don't already know a programming language more complicated than BASIC or don't have some basic knowledge of C then this book is not for you. HOWEVER, if you've taken a class in c, read a book but didn't really feel like you've really understood c, this book is for you.
Rating: 4 out of 5
a good C book but not a reference or turtorial
the book talks all the interesting aspects of C, and very useful if you are familiar with it. but not a good book if you need one for reference.
Rating: 4 out of 5
It's ok but there are better books out there
This book is ok but I've read better books on C Programming. If you got this and The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan ... then together you've got a good start on learning C and many of the modern tools (such as make) that are important to all C programmers.
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