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C Programming in 12 Easy Lessons

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C in 12 easy lessons is THE BEST book on C programming for THE BEGINNER! Last summer i took a 5 week college crash course on C programming. Welp...the teacher gave me an "F" (the teacher sucked but that a whole other program) Plus the book he used to to teach the class was soooo freakin confusing it was pathetic! You know the type of books I'm talking about! The kind where the author has to feed his ego by trying to get the reader confused with BIGLONGCOMPUTERWORDSLIKETHIS rather than just speaking in English. Anyway, I re-took the class (with a different teacher thank god!) and thanks to this book..i got an "A". This book is PEEEEERFECT for the beginner! When I took "C" the first time I bought 3 different books on trying to understand pointers and functions to no avail BUT...this book did it! This book will TEACH you "C". But more important than that...the way this book is written, you will REMEMBER how to program in "C". I'm taking Visual C++ in the fall and low and behold...Mr. Perry has a "Visual C++ in 12 Easy Lessons" book! What more could a "PC Progamming" Major ask for! Thanks Mr. Perry!

I purchased this book at the recommendation of an IT manager prior to taking an Into to C Programming college course.

While the book was not the recommended text for the couse, it was an acceptable alternative. The book provides a solid foundation and knowledge base, with examples, source code, and review opportunties to ensure solid comphrension. I worked through the book prior to the course, and felt I learned significantly more from the book.

However, I was somewhat disappointed in the coverage of pointers, which seemed to be lacking for such a critical component of C.

Overall, I would highly recommend this book.

Don't let nobody tell you different! I'm a Systems Engineer, not a programmer. This is the greatest 'intro to C' programming book of all time.
My version didn't have a CDROM it came with a floppy that I found to be fantastic. I've never depended on the FREE, GiveAway compiler that comes with any programming book. And I strongly recommend that nobody else should either.
Using the free 'cripple-ware' that comes with most programming books is a virtual guarantee of getting some indeterminate number of headaches, the magnitude of which, can be predicted.

NO THE AUTHOR DOESN'T DEAL HEAVILY WITH POINTERS, like some reviewers gripe about. But he covers them MUCH MORE THAN ADEQUATELY FOR AN "INTRO" BOOK. Detailed, in-depth coverage of pointers is simply, BEYOND THE SCOPE OF THIS BOOK's MISSION.

What makes this book so fantastic is that it is built in a great fashion from simple to more complex tasks that are RELEVANT, and that build on all of the previous knowledge. BUT, WHAT IS ABSOLUTELY KILLER, and nobody else seems to do this; is that there are a lot of programs given in the book
- AND RIGHT ON THE SAME PAGE, LINE-BY-LINE -
the author explains what each and every line of code is doing AND WHY.
Some of the other reviewers imply that this makes the book too simplistic; but for beginners, this is JUST AWESOME.

NO - IT's NOT THE RIGHT BOOK FOR ACCOMPLISHED PROGRAMMERS, BUT WHY WOULD THEY THINK THAT IT WOULD BE???

Its an OK Book but is too basic. The most complicated subect matter is probably pointers. I'd say get this book (for the CD rom) then get another book that has some serious code. Oh yeah, and the author could have done much better with the input functions. He used CIN and they are useless. cin.getlines would have been much more appropriate.

This book is the reason I like programming this much. It explains everything a beginner should wonder. Something like you are having private lessons from an expert.

This is an excellent book for beginners. I know, I was one. When I read this book, it opened my eyes to all the possibilites in programming. Before I bought this book I had no idea on how to program. But I can now say that I can have an intelligent conversation about programming.

Good book for beginners. Even if have never touched a programming language before this can get started. The author has some DOS specific commands in his programming. So it limits you in that respect. If you can figure out where to take out the DOS stuff you can use it on any platform.

This is one excellent book to learn C programming. I purchased this book around 1994, because when I went back to college, programming was done in C instead of Fortran. I had learned Fortran at Purdue about a decade earlier. I had to either take a class in C, or learn on my own. I chose this book to learn on my own.

Greg's style was crisp and to the point. It was easy to read. BUT, more importantly, the book was chock full of assignments. This is great, because you don't really know that you've learned anything until you actually write code yourself. Also, the disk had answers to the questions. So you can test yourself.

Greg emphasized code style, white space and readability along with the basic C syntax. Because of this book, I've purchase other books by this author because I thought this one was so well written. I also own his Visual Basic in 12, Easy Lesson, Turbo C++ in 12 Easy Lessons and his Java book. I've been pleased with most of my books I've purchased by this author. His Java book didn't keep the style of programming assignments and end of chapter questions as his other books, so I didn't like that one as well.

ONE WARNING: Greg recommends different books to advance you knowledge. Most of the books he recommends were excellent for going on in C programming. He does at one point recommend a book titled "Assembly Language for Real Programmers Only" to learn assembly language. Though this book by Marcus Johnson is a great book, it's not a good entry level text. I did buy it. It's actually an advanced book that also double as a reference. So, you may want to get "Assembly Language Step by Step" to learn beginning assembly language programming.

Other than that, I would highly recommend this book for beginners to learn C.

I read this book, and shortly after began my own little business of C/C++ programming! This book is excellent, and if you use it right, can help you in many ways!

I wouldn't recommend this book; the presentation is shallow as are the examples. Author assumes reader has little sense and the text is often goofy.