Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours

by Tony Zhang and John Southmayd

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067231861X
• ISBN13: 9780672318610
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Sams Publishing
• Length: 527 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

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. The rest is filling in on details of math and vocabulary. By the fourth chapter it was very clear to me what is needed. In conclusion of the book you will be programming. Ive bought this book twice because by chapter six someone stole it. After reading this book i have understood most programming languages alot easier.

Get started fast.

I needed to learn enough C in an afternoon to grab data from a text file, modify it, and write it out to a new file. The examples and explanations were more than adequate to get the task done quickly. It is written in a format simple enough for first time programmers and introduces concepts quickly with efficient organization to keep those with prior programming experience motivated. One of the best programming books I have ever used.

Great way to learn C programming

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.

Excellent Starter

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 fter reading these 2 and doing all of the exercises, I find I am totally confident to tell any nterviewer "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.

A Well-Written Book

It is a well-written book about the standard C (i.e., ANSI C.) The basic concepts and standard C functions are clearly covered in the 24 chapters of the book. I teach C/C++ and Java at school. This book has been selected into the reference book list to my students who normally learn C first, and then move to C++, Java, or Windows development with some specific software tools. It is true that learning C is harder than learning Basic. But the sample programs and exercises enclosed in the book help the reader to come up the learning-curve quickly. As for compilers, I personally like Visual C++. (Don't be fooled by the name of "Visual C++". These days, most commercial C compilers are bundled into C++ compiler packages, such as Visual C++, and Borland C++.)