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Sams' Teach Yourself Advanced C in 21 Days (Teach Yourself in 21 Days)

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Gone are the days of DOS console programming. You dont see the types of interfaces that are used in this book anymore. So why is it so good? It teaches some advanced concepts and libraries used in C. Also, you never know when that legacy app will need fixing<G> I found the subject material facinating and learned alot about putting together a database program without a fancy RDMS system. Something that can carry over to my JAVA programming world.

I had read one C book before this, but this book really taught me a lot. It goes into stuff like binary trees, memory allocation, etc.. And at the end it has you write a big application..15-20,000 lines. The only problem i found is that it uses BIOS functions, which are not used in most compilers today. But overall, a great book. Buy it.

I am a engeneer and work with automation, and actually is appearing open tecnologies to help to build more flexible net , allowing to mix many kind of different equipaments work together. And C is one of the subjects that are exploding at this segment of "devicenet". This book was certainly what i was looking for. I often study alone , and know i have a idea of how can i develop i simple software , cause i dont pretend to be a expert, i am really satisfy to have spend some money and time with this book , congratulations to the Authors. Forgive me for my Inglęs , I dont use to exercise freguentily.

This book is fantastic! Previously, I had difficulty with concepts such as pointers, arrays and structures. This book clearly explains the differences, provides excellent examples and also includes good programming advice. I have compiled many of the example programs and they are highly instructional. Each example includes an analysis section that explains the examples by line number which is also extremely helpful. The book is well laid out and each section begins with a checklist that tells you what to expect to learn for that section. I highly recommend this book! Compile the examples and you too can learn C!

I like it, even though I am not finished with it, I like how it is self paced and you can learn it in 21 days. I do agree that the author rushes through things, but other than that it is good.

This is a great book for learning some advanced C programming. Highly recommended. I can't believe someone would give this book 1 star because they didn't grasp the concepts. That this book is ADVANCED enough to thwart the learning efforts of a beginner makes it worthy of its name. In my mind, this is a praisworthy trait for a book to have (truth in the title).

I started reading this book and the topics didn't seem to me that advanced. Also, I had to debug every code example in the book so far just to get them to run which I guess is a learning experience in itself. I guess I just wasn't that impressed.

The C in 21 days is really a good programming book which provides example, coding, explaination and many more useful exercise. Then, the Advanced C is my next programming book, I'll more expert in C and many more. Explore it today !

Remember, C IS FUN!

Hard to understand this stuff. Rushes through stuff. Leaves me wondering.