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C Program Design for Engineers (2nd Edition)

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As a sophomore in electrical and computer engineering major at Auburn University, I can safely say that this is the worst book I have ever *attempted* to read as well as spent seventy dollars on. The book came with faded text, a poor introduction, and horrible examples that does not appeal to the beginning programmer. This book is now a coffee coaster in the living room of my apartment (as no one would buy it back). Do not waste your time with this book. Instead, try the Absolute Beginner's guide to C by Greg Perry or any other book if you want to learn C.
Not this book.

Although this book does cover the material okay, I was extremely disappointed in the printing and binding quality. For starters almost everything is blurry, except straight text. The programming examples are blurry and the whole book looks like it was scanned in. Even the front and back cover is blurry. The binding quality is terrible. My book fell apart after almost no use(like literally a couple hundred pages came out of the middle of the book in a block). Opening the book requires bending it slightly to keep it open, but as you do, you can see the binding material come apart with. I was careful with this book and rarely used it, but my dollars basically are down the drain in this book.

The content is okay, but there are better books that won't fall apart on you and can easily be read because they haven't been scanned from what looks like newspaper print.

If you have to buy this book for a class, you probably don't actually need it for that class. If you are a serious programmer and want to build your professional library, don't buy this book; get a better one. Reference someone else's book who bought it if you have to.

Book trys to be good at explaining programming, but it's not exactly something you can explain in a book.

I will have to disagree with the guy that said the book " NOT THE BEST ".
First he said that he was a C++ programmer and that the book was not good for him. Well, i'am not sure if that guy is blind or half stupid ,but the title of the book clearly says " C PROGRAM FOR ENGINEERS " not for morons.

I am a c++ programmer and tried to brush up on C using this book. I had to buy a new book. Maybe an engineer can get some use for their $55 some bucks but I didn't.