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| Book: | Practical C Programming | |
| Subject: | Recommended book | |
| Date: | 2006-06-30 03:17:41 | |
| From: | duchuy | |
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Rating:
 
This book is perfect, especially when you had prior experience with other program languages like Java, etc. I tried some other C books, like the one of K&R, and some other older stuff, which did not attract me as much as this book. As the book stated earlier, this is a practical favours, and not it doesnot focus muchh on the concepts and definitions. Instead, it walks reader to explore the usage of C syntax and styles. It requires reader of having prior programming experience. The main focus of the book was on the pointers, structs, preprocessors and file I/O handling. I skipped some parts like Bit fields (chap 11), Floating points (chap 16). However, the chapters dedicated for practical knowledge and building small, real-life applications (chap 7, chap 15, chap 18, chap 20) didnot suffice and a bit hard to read. On the other hand, the old-C compilers is a bit helpless, since now it's hard to find 'ancient' C compiler and write program compatiable with them. The author missed some things which in turn confused me: The file_format designing is quite trivial. Also, it was published in 1997, then a bit date so far, and I must take time to choose a nice IDE to develop C programs on this book (Dev-C++ is quite good). Anyway, I enjoy the way the author mentioned and represented problems. Always, most exercises werenot too difficult. The definitions were well-depicted that aided reader in better understanding. This book also affected on the way I make comments and arrange programs. After all, reading this book guided me to explore the C++ book of this author. |
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