Sams Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours, Second Edition, shows you how to program in C in an easy-to-understand format. C is a powerful and flexible language used for a wide range of projects. You begin with learning the basics to write a first program and then move on to arrays, pointers, disk input/output, and functions. This book will allow you to understanding data types, loops, and strings to make your programs work for you. You'll also work with arrays, structures, and unions to expand your programming skills, use pointers to access and retrieve data elements, develop programs that process mathematical equations, functions, and variables, and explore memory management techniques.



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Sams Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours, Second Edition, shows you how to program in C in an easy-to-understand format. C is a powerful and flexible language used for a wide range of projects. You begin with learning the basics to write a first program and then move on to arrays, pointers, disk input/output, and functions. This book will allow you to understanding data types, loops, and strings to make your programs work for you. You'll also work with arrays, structures, and unions to expand your programming skills, use pointers to access and retrieve data elements, develop programs that process mathematical equations, functions, and variables, and explore memory management techniques.

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Paperback: 552 pages

Publisher: Sams; 2 edition (February 28, 2000)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 067231861X

ISBN-13: 978-0672318610

Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 1.2 inches

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Good, but no application power, September 21, 2000

By Blaine (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours (Paperback)

The teaching method is very quick, about half way through the book you'll probably be able to produce some very week programs. The book overall does a good job of teaching different keywords and the use of different functions but it doesn't discuss how to apply those into your own programs. It's good to get you on your feet with programming but once your done with it it really can't help you any furthur.

Don't hesitate at buying this book because its about C and you want to learn C++. You'll find that while programming C++ it will be necessary to use plain C code. So even if your interested in C++ this book will be helpfull.

The code in the book will work with most compilers so you won't have to worry about code you can't work with.

Overall its a good book to start your education into C.

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For beginners only, May 22, 2002

By Charles Ashbacher "(cashbacher@yahoo.com)" (Marion, Iowa United States(cashbacher@yahoo.com)) - See all my reviews



For someone with little experience in programming, this book is an excellent introduction to the syntax of C and the various components of a C program. The approach is to present a series of small programs that do little more than display the results so that a novice can see the operation(s) in action. However, if you have some programming experience, you will most likely be bored, and that state will appear fairly quickly.

Most of the programs are under thirty lines, which includes the header for the main function, comment for program name, include lines and separate lines for the opening and closing curly braces. This is not to say that all of the major features of the language are not demonstrated, in that respect, the author is thorough. What is lacking is some sense of what the language can do, and that really cannot be done with programs that do nothing but demonstrate.

One feature that I found rather odd is that the author puts in way too much unnecessary documentation. Comments like

/* main() function *.

main()

/* GetDateTime() definition */

void GetDateTime(void)

/* function definition */

void StrCopy(char *str1, char *str2)

are totally unnecessary and clutter the code.

On the good side, the author does a good job demonstrating all the major features of the C language by showing each of them in action. However, on the bad side, that is all that is done and you get no real sense of how the features can be combined to do something useful. With few exceptions, the programs do not show you how to do anything of value.

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Great way to learn C programming, January 23, 2000

By David L. Van Popering (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews



This review is from: Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself) (Paperback)

Not knowing anything about C I read this book and learned a tremendous amount. I am now following it with the O'Reilly Practical C Programming and after reading these 2 and doing all of the exercises, I find I am totally confident to tell any interviewer "Yes, I AM a C programmer".

People get too hung up on the "24 hours" or "21 days" in the titles. Someone who is serious about learning will recognize that these are really "24 lessons" or "21 lessons". The point is that this book (and others in the series) are designed to be self-taught tutorials, each chapter building on the previous one.

Readers of these reviews must be aware that many who make a strike against these types of books are either not truly committed to their studies, or already have programming experience and have become 'reviewing snobs', forgetting what it is like to start out with little or no programming experience. I whole heartedly recommend this book, as well as many others from the Teach Yourself series.

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This book, even as the second edition, suffers from poor proof reading. The text and examples in some cases do not match causing confusion for the student. Read more

Published on July 3, 2005 by C. Calvin

Too tough

I hardly got anything out of this book. Understanding pointers was difficult, and the brief explanations weren't helpful. Read more

Published on March 12, 2005

Great Intro.

I have read an earlier edition of this book. I have to say it is the best intro to C I have ever read. None of the campy "For Dummies"-ish stuff. Read more

Published on November 28, 2004 by dpm

Excellent

I absolutely did not know ANYTHING about programming. First chapter was a very simplified version of what will become a more complex outcome further on. Read more

Published on August 24, 2004 by Miss Nokiba

great book, but no downloads for computer codes

this is a good book to get one started with C language. The explanations are clear and concise.

The downside is that there is no download for computer codes used for examples,... Read more

Published on August 1, 2002 by lxyiwc

Great coverage of C basics

Please note that I wouldn't recommend this book to a novice programmer. To a novice I'd say start with any flavour of Basic (BASIC stands for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic... Read more

Published on December 30, 2001 by Spin99

A Good Beginning Book...

A while back I bought this book, backtracking from C++ to C. I took off on this book, skimming through the first few chapters, until I finally started to work on the examples. Read more

Published on November 24, 2001 by Jason Pell

How "not" to learn anything.

I suppose I might have learned more from this book had the programming examples been compatible with the compiler included on the cd in the book. Read more

Published on July 15, 2001 by Samuel Dildine Stinson

Great intro to C

This book does a very good job of explaining C to the beginner. It gives the reader easy to understand examples and exercises to practice what you are learning. Read more

Published on June 18, 2001

All I can say is that it sucks

Ya heard me! If The C Programming Language is too terse for you, then just go with C for Dummies. Reasons it sucks - 1. The Author's writing style is horrible. I hate it. 2. Read more

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