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Introductory C Richard Petersen Format: Other Format, 896pp Pub. Date: June 1996 Publisher: Academic Press, Incorporated ISBN: 0201179288
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As of a few years ago this was widely used in various universities - I have no idea what text is in use at the university level today. Dave R.
The language has been around since the early 70's. Hundreds of books have been written about it. It took more than 20 years for someone to get it right. If you want to use C productively, you can't memorize syntax and start tossing code around. It will bite you every time, and you will spend endless hours trying to debug your programs by superstition. "Hmm. Maybe if I put a semi-colon there. . . ." When you understand it, you see why it's so powerful, and why it's been so popular. You might actually get to the point where you like C!! This is the best book about C that I have ever read, and I've read a number of them, if you want to get to the point where you understand the language. It's a shame that so many people had to learn the language without the benefit of this book. Anonymous
It is an unique and excellent book. It explains in details the pointer concept. However, I think some of the codes can be better written. The examples in the book are written in such a way sometimes it is difficult to get get the points cross to its readers. For example, the examples can use more printf statement to let readers see the result. Ohour1688