C Through Design

By Richard Smedley and George E. Defenbaugh

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938661108
• ISBN13: 9780938661108
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Franklin Beedle & Assoc
• Length: 630 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This oldie is a goodie if you want to learn C

I've had this book on my shelf for 18 years, ever since I first decided to learn C programming back in 1990. I've looked over several other texts on C since then, and they either read more like a reference than a text, or they are at such a low level that you barely get any instruction on the hard parts of C, which are details on structures and pointers. This book has it all, and has it in detail. Also, it starts from the beginning, showing you the easy parts of the C programming language. It spends six chapters on the basics of the C language, including functions, before it gets into meatier topics. The book is full of well-commented sample code and there are exercises at the end of each chapter. Kernighan & Richie may be the definitive book on the C language, but learning C from that book is like learning English from a dictionary. I wouldn't advise it. For less than a dollar plus shipping get this old book used and learn the C language inside and out from the beginning. The following is the table of contents: 1. Introduction, Program Design, and Problem Solving 2. A Working Overview of the C Language and Functions 3. Constants and Variables 4. Operators and Expressions 5. Looping and Flow Control 6. Functions 7. Standard Character Input and Output 8. Scope, Storage Duration, and Storage Classes 9. Arrays 10. Pointers 11. Structures 12. Disk File and Record I/O 13. The Preprocessor Appendix A - Using the Turbo C Compiler Appendix B - Using the Quick C Compiler Appendix C - Trigraphs Appendix D - Standard Headers Appendix E - ASCII/EBCDIC Character Codes Appendix F - MS/PC-DOS OS Specifics Appendix G - Unix OOS Specifics

Concise. Good for beginners and seasoned C professionals.

This book is concise and well-written. It provides clear, and useful (real-world) examples. I now use this book as a reference, but used it as a beginning C programmer.