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Write powerful C programs…without becoming a technical expert! This book is the fastest way to get comfortable with C, one incredibly clear and easy step at a time. You’ll learn all the basics: how to organize programs, store and display data, work with variables, operators, I/O, pointers, arrays, functions, and much more. C programming has neverbeen this simple!

Who knew how simple C programming could be?

This is today’s best beginner’s guide to writing C programs–and to learning skills you can use with practically any language. Its simple, practical instructions will help you start creating useful, reliable C code, from games to mobile apps. Plus, it’s fully updated for the new C11 standard and today’s free, open source tools! Here’s a small sample of what you’ll learn:

• Discover free C programming tools for Windows, OS X, or Linux

• Understand the parts of a C program and how they fit together

• Generate output and display it on the screen

• Interact with users and respond to their input

• Make the most of variables by using assignments and expressions

• Control programs by testing data and using logical operators

• Save time and effort by using loops and other techniques

• Build powerful data-entry routines with simple built-in functions

• Manipulate text with strings

• Store information, so it’s easy to access and use

• Manage your data with arrays, pointers, and data structures

• Use functions to make programs easier to write and maintain

• Let C handle all your program’s math for you

• Handle your computer’s memory as efficiently as possible

• Make programs more powerful with preprocessing directives

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Title	C Programming Absolute Beginner's Guide, 3/e	Learn C the Hard Way: Practical Exercises on the Computational Subjects You Keep Avoiding (Like C)	C Programming in One Hour a Day, Sams Teach Yourself, 7/e	C Primer Plus, 6/e	Programming in C, 4/e
Author(s)	Greg Perry, Dean Miller	Zed A. Shaw	Bradley L. Jones, Peter Aitken, Dean Miller	Stephen Prata	Stephen G. Kochan
Page Count	352	384	720	1080	600
List Price	$29.99	$39.99	$39.99	$59.99	$49.99
Pub Date	08/07/2013	09/04/2015	10/11/2013	11/26/2013	08/18/2014
Binding	Paper	Paperback with DVD	Paper	Paper	Paper
Print ISBN	0789751984	0321884922	0789751992	0321928423	0321776410
Series	Absolute Beginner's Guide	Zed Shaw's Hard Way Series	Sams Teach Yourself	Developer's Library	Developer's Library
Brief Description	Write powerful C programs. ..without becoming a technical expert! This book is the fastest way to get comfortable with C, one incredibly clear and easy step at a time. You’ll learn all the basics: how to organize programs, store and display data, work with variables, operators, I/O, pointers, arrays, functions, and much more. C programming has never been this simple!	Perfect for beginning C programmers eager to advance their skills in any language. Follow it and you will learn the many skills early and junior programmers need to succeed by working through 52 brilliantly crafted exercises with accompanying videos and exercises from Zed Shaw. Fix your mistakes. Watch the programs run. As you do, you’ll learn what good, modern C programs look like; how to think more effectively about code; and how to find and fix mistakes far more efficiently.	Filled with carefully explained code, clear syntax examples, and well-crafted exercises, this is the broadest and deepest introductory C tutorial available. It delivers step-by-step, hands-on experience that starts with simple tasks and gradually builds to professional-quality techniques. Each lesson is designed to be completed in hour or less, introducing and clearly explaining essential concepts, providing practical examples, and encouraging you to build simple programs on your own.	This book teaches principles of programming, including structured code and top-down design. Many short, practical examples illustrate one or two concepts at a time, encouraging readers to master new topics by immediately putting them to use. Review questions and programming exercises at the end of each chapter bring out the most critical pieces of information and help readers understand and digest the most difficult concepts. A friendly and easy-to-use self-study guide, this book is appropriate for serious students of programming, as well as developers proficient in other languages.	Whether you’re a novice or experienced programmer, this book will provide you with a clear understanding of this language, which is the foundation for many object-oriented programming languages such as C++, Objective-C, C#, and Java. This book teaches C by example, with complete C programs used to illustrate each new concept along the way. Stephen Kochan provides step-by-step explanations for all C functions. You will learn both the language fundamentals and good programming practices. Exercises at the end of each chapter make the book ideally suited for classroom use or for self-instruction.

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Greg Perry is a speaker and writer in both the programming and applications sides of computing. He is known for bringing programming topics down to the beginner’s level. Perry has been a programmer and trainer for two decades. He received his first degree in computer science and then earned a Master’s degree in corporate finance. Besides writing, he consults and lectures across the country, including at the acclaimed Software Development programming conferences. Perry is the author of more than 75 other computer books. In his spare time, he gives lectures on traveling in Italy, his second favorite place to be.

Dean Miller is a writer and editor with more than 20 years of experience in both the publishing and licensed consumer product businesses. Over the years, he has created or helped shape a number of bestselling books and series, including Teach Yourself in 21 Days, Teach Yourself in 24 Hours, and the Unleashed series, all from Sams Publishing.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Que Publishing; 3rd edition (August 7, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0789751984
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0789751980
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.9 x 9 inches

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Elena Lange

Very useful book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 8, 2023

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This book was used for my online College course in C programming (1 of 2). This textbook was the best one by far. Easy to understand, I learned a lot, and feel confident that I can now do basic C programming. You really couldn't do better than this book (and since I'm in college for programming, I've read a lot of beginner programming texts!).

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hzhang

Best text to introduce C programming to beginners

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 21, 2022

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This is by far the cleanest, and smoothest, introduction to C programming I've ever seen. Easy to learn, but touches important concepts. This could be partly due to C's lack of bells and whistles. This book is the best selected, and organized, materials that I would use to teach my own kids as their first programming language. Compared to Python, Go, and Java, C gets chosen to be the first computer language for kids, mostly because I finally run into a book that can help me with this very important purpose.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 1, 2016

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I plan on updating this review as I go. This book was specifically recommended for those less familiar with programming for a class I'm taking.

The introductory information, vernacular, tips, and warnings are very helpful.

However, for someone with absolutely no programming experience (but) with otherwise fair computer skills, this book left me pestering my programmer friends for guidance by the 2ND CHAPTER. I used the C compiler recommended by the book, as it only recommends one by name noting it's the one the book will be referencing. It notes there are hundreds of free compilers out there, but I want to follow the book in hopes of grasping the information better. Fine. And I get that some features are going to be different with updates, but I wasn't able to even start putting in code for practice because the book fails to explain how to go about creating a new project in code blocks. I looked under the (new) project option which had a dozen different types of project models. None of which is mentioned. Then I went to file, which lead me to believe I had to have pre-installed .c files on my computer. Instead, I'm creating the name of my project here. The book fails to elucidate how to go about starting a new project. Again, this is a book for beginners with no experience whatsoever necessary. That means you have to spell things out step-by-step.

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After reviewing the material, I find the author's style of the aforementioned setting up and using the c-compiler to simply be a matter of poor layering or structuring on his part. In this case, he put the cart before the horse, detailing what I needed to know after showing and suggesting I test out the code on the page before me. I think I will be better off reading this after my coursework is up to date, and only sticking with my coursework compiler, as the code blocks is still a little confusing to me. While this book will certainly be more helpful down the line, he almost needs to postpone the user getting onto code blocks or another c compiler a few chapters later, after they've become familiar with a few aspects and rules of the language.

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Ultimately, setting aside setting up the code blocks compiler, the information the author provides in this book is extremely helpful. I'm still rather green (new) around the edges but I'm finding the examples very helpful. Knowing what I do, I would have skipped the 2nd chapter on set up and moved forward with learning the basic principles and rules of programming before trying to build anything on code blocks.

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Zayd

Really helpful book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 5, 2022

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This was a great beginner book. I did a coding bootcamp in the past and have seen several languages but this book really teaches you all the basics of C and covers a wide breadth of material. It helped me to better understand fundamental concepts and why certain things are done the way they are such as pointers and heap memory. Great book for a beginner or anyone who wants to understand C and programming basics. Really helpful and thorough!

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Absolutely Amazing Experience Reading this Book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 12, 2016

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TL;DR- This book is amazing and is perfect for anyone who has no experience, or does and wants to learn a new language.

As i was trying to learn C as my first program, I thought it was going to be very hard because I've heard online that C is the not the ideal choice for getting started in programming as there are easier options like Python. But this book made learning C very easy, and had perfect explanations and examples. The way the authors relay the information is not hard to understand if you have absolutely no programming experience. The coding examples they have you copy from the book into an IDE are great ALTHOUGH I do wish that they gave some problems that we are supposed to try on our own so that all of the coding done through the book wasn't copied from it..

One of the problems with this book is the ending- because it kind of just leaves you with no idea of what to do next, and how to keep furthering your knowledge of C... After I read this book I had no idea what to do next and had a hard time trying to find resources for "intermediate" C.

Still, I would recommend this book to anyone who has no programming experience at all and would like to learn C as their first language.This book is also good for people who have prior programming experience and want to learn C, although you will have to read through what is an int, str, etc..

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A. Duncan

Great to get the basic of C - helped me with Arduino projects!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 22, 2016

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I bought this book to better understand C language for programs I am creating for the Arduino.

This book was absolutely brilliant, it helped teach me the basics of C as well as how to structure it. It doesn't teach you everything, (as that would be impossible!) but it will give you a good base knowledge. It has really helped when I have been looking at other peoples code for Arduino online and understanding what they are doing.

Just an FYI - there are some differences between C and C for Arduino, so i would also recommend getting the beginners guide to Arduino as well (if thats what you are going to use).

Would highly recommend this book to anyone.

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Michael

Helpful but too many mistakes

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 23, 2021

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The book explains concepts well. But the code is often broken and it's hard to spot the mistakes as a beginner. Most can be solved after much googling but this becomes tiresome. Especially toward the end where functions are involved. The author has not declared them, but as a beginner I'm not sure how to declare them correctly so the programs do not compile. Really every program needed to be compiled on a modern compiler before publishing the book.

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Jorge

Begginer friendly but with mistakes

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 4, 2021

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My only knowledge of programming comes from basic/intermediate python. As an engineer, I think C will be useful. This is a gentle introduction to C and I recommend it. However, I find way to many typos. In addition, it says on the cover that it is updated to C11, yet still explains the deprecated -and dangerous- gets() function. I am afraid I will need another course on C, but I will probably be able to follow a slightly more advanced manual... if I continue learning C.

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Gordon Roger Lawrence

C Programming Absolute Beginner's Guide

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 1, 2019

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An excellent book. Very clearly laid out with very informative ways of illustrating the language. It was so good in fact that I quickly realised that C was not the language for me, and I've since moved onto another. However, if you are yearning, or have to learn C, then this is the book for you.

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UZA

Excellent Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 3, 2018

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At first I wasn't sure whether to buy this, but I am very glad I did. I am a beginner to C and this book is absolutely amazing!
One bad thing is it is black and white and that can make it seem abit monotonous at first, but it is exactly the opposite.
It explains in a way that makes it seem so easy and makes you want to read on.

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