Teach Yourself C in 21 Days (Teach Yourself in 21 Days) [Paperback]

Peter G. Aitken (Author), Bradley L. Jones (Author), Peter Aitken (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0672310694 | ISBN-13: 978-0672310690 | Publication Date: August 1997 | Edition: 4th

With its ever-expanding installed base, C continues to be one of the most popular programming languages on the market. This fact, along with the Teach Yourself series' reputation as the most popular way to learn programming languages, guarantee that Teach Yourself C in 21 Days, Fourth Edition is clearly headed for the bestseller lists.

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Users can achieve C success--now! Each lesson can be completed in 2 to 3 hours or less. Features day-by-day lessons and clear syntax examples. Shaded syntax boxes offer quick summaries of all C statements. Q&A sections answer common programming questions. Do/Don't sections reinforce important topics and help users avoid hard-to-track bugs. Covers ANSI C. -- Sams Pub. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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With its ever-expanding installed base, C continues to be one of the most popular programming languages on the market. This fact, along with the Teach Yourself series' reputation as the most popular way to learn programming languages, guarantee that Teach Yourself C in 21 Days, Fourth Edition is clearly headed for the bestseller lists. - Covers ANSI C-a standard for all compilers, including Visual C++, Borland C++, Turbo C++ for Windows, UNIX C, Mac C and more

- Includes a bonus week covering advanced topics such as coding styles and portability issues

- Teaches the basics of C, including variables, constants, conditional statements, loops, pointers, data structures, input/output and functions

Product Details

• Paperback: 736 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 4th edition (August 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672310694
• ISBN-13: 978-0672310690
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,509,267 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice book, November 22, 1999

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This review is from: Teach Yourself C in 21 Days (Teach Yourself in 21 Days) (Paperback)

This book is nice one, I'm sure that it could make you understand the language. I'm a C++ programmer, but somehow I have to read/analyze C code very often (since C is more popular than C++ in Japan). This book is well-done in many aspects. However, there are still something/functions that shouldn't be use. For example, the author used "gets()" function, which is dangerous.

Anyway, overall this is a nice book on C tutorial. Note for noive/beginner don't hope to finish it within 21 Days, remember that learning any language, not just programming language, take times.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun to frustrating, January 21, 1999

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This review is from: Teach Yourself C in 21 Days (Teach Yourself in 21 Days) (Paperback)

This book starts off excellent, giving the user the belief that C is easy, etc. In fact, it is not easy and you need to have some programming experience before attempting this book. For the first 5 days no experience is necessary, but this changes quickly

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Tutorial!!!, September 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself C in 21 Days (Teach Yourself in 21 Days) (Paperback)

This is the first C programming book I read. I still recall the excitement I felt when I run the first code example in the book and saw "Hello World" displayed on the screen.

1) The authors present the key concepts in C language, such as pointers and arrays, in a concise and easy-to-understand manner.

2) The many code examples (with analysis) in the book enable the readers to better understand the language features. More importantly, they can get a feel on when and how to use these features.

3) The programs are fun to run, and the pace of the book is easy to follow. I finished the book (including most of the exercises) in 21 days.

I highly recommend it to everyone who wants to learn C.