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C for Dummies, Volume One & Two Bundle
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Author: Dan Gookin
List Price: $39.99
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ISBN: 1568849397
Publisher: For Dummies (24 April, 1997)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 26,330
Average Customer Rating: 4.39 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
Waste of time
This book was a complete waste of time for me. It barely teaches you anything after reading the first volume. What took 1000 pages in this book I can learn in in 100 pages of another book. The author uses so much humor in this book that it gets extremely frustrating. For example, in the quizes after each section he gives a question with multiple choice answers. There are amazingly stupid answers to choose from leaving you with only one logical answer. He might as well just give you the answer rather than writing down bs. He repeats each example over and over again which makes it frustrating. I found myself repeating the same things withouth learning anything new. The only time I would recommend this book if you were some moron who has an iq of 90 and can barely read or if you're a 10 year old and doesn't know what you're doing. It's ridiculous how simple it is he teaches you. It takes the author 20 pages to teach you something you can easily learn in anotehr book in 1 page. I recommend C Primer Plus by Stephen Prata rather than this piece of garbage.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Invaluable for 1st and 2nd year CS majors
I'm a 2nd year computer science major and we use K&R (The C Programming Language 2nd Edition ANSI version) in class. I find it incredibly dry and boring, although I suppose it's terse and to the point. C for Dummies can be repetitious at times but I find that I need and appreciate that. And yeah, the quizzes are dumb but who's taking them anyway? I get enough in class. :) The sections on pointers or structures alone are well worth the price of admission. The index is especially well done. It's easy to jump around, scan and use the book as a reference guide. I also like the "cheat sheet" containing hints and tips that you can rip out and keep by your computer.
SIDE NOTES: Even as a neophyte programmer, I was able to jump pretty much straight into Vol. 2, having only a year of Java experience previously. Also, we use unix gcc at the university and Gookin uses Borland C++ and Microsoft Visual C++ to compile. An earlier reviewer seemed to think that excluding gcc was wrong but I don't think it makes much of a difference -- the fundamental concepts and implementations are the same. The header files Gookin uses are the same as the ones we use in class with unix, too. All in all, Gookin's Vol. 2 is a great book. I haven't looked at Vol. 1 at all but I have no regrets buying the 2-volume set.
Rating: 5 out of 5
A C Book for the Uninitiated
This is one of the finest book for learning the terse programming language C.Author Dan Gookin takes a very humourous approach to make the whole learning process very easy.Anyone without any clue to programming can start programming in C just going through a few early chapters. If you want to learn C and do not have any idea what it's all about this the book for you.This book might not be for serious programmers but for the beginner it is a wonderful book. The easiest & the best. Thanks Dan.
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