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Title: Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days, Complete Compiler Edition, Version 2.0 (Teach Yourself -- Days) by Bradley L. Jones, Peter G. Aitken, Brad Jones ISBN: 0-672-31767-2 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 15 November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.93 (29 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Introduction To C#!
Comment: Focus of this book is on the language itself - It doesn't get side-tracked talking about Visual Studio and .NET in general, like many C# books. It is written in a clear, friendly tone and the concepts and definitions are easy to understand. The organization is also well thought-out. Like all 21 Days books, it is divided into 3 weeks of 7 days (chapters) each. In this book, Week 1 covers language basics, like using the compiler, variables, operators, control statements and an introduction to classes and methods. Week 2 goes into more intermediate language topics like enumerators, arrays, exception handling, inheritance, interfaces and delegates. Finally, Week 3 introduces a some advanced C# topics like operator overloading and reflection as well as demonstrating how C# fits with the rest of the .NET world, specifically, the .NET Framework, Windows Forms, Web Services and Web Forms.
One caveat: If you don't have a lot of programming experience, the first couple of days cover conceptual topics that may be a little confusing. Don't let that trip you up. Just skim over them ignoring anything you don't understand and head to Day 3. That where the real meat of the programming topics begin and from there it starts at the beginning and builds on itself, as you'd expect.
I particularly liked the Week In Review sections that provided extended examples (often several hundred lines of code) that demonstrate the concepts covered in the previous week. Cross-references make it easy to look up anything that is unfamiliar. This really helps pull together the concepts and helps you understand how to apply them to real-world code.
Overall a great tutorial that doesn't skip around or backtrack like so many computer books do. The organization also makes it a good reference for looking things up after you learn C#.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Intoduction to C
Comment: I am a decent VB programmer and wanted to learn C/C++ so I started here. I've progressed quickly though the book and find it well-organized and very readable. The examples are great and the exercises at the end if each chapter are very helpful. There are a few mistakes, same as any book. This is also not a perfect book for a total beginner because it covers a lot of ground quickly, so it helps to understand fundamental programming concepts first and then translate that knowledge into C using this book. One reviewer complained that there was no explanation of why the author always uses "int main()" and "return 0;". The fact is, this is his style. It could have been done another way. In programming there's almost always another way of doing something. The reviewer was obviously a beginner. I will supplement this book with one that's more advanced once I finish it, but right now it's perfect for me.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Book for Getting into C
Comment: Despite all the hype for C# and C++, if you know and understand C, you could probably write those other languages. C can get very complex (as far as numerous functions and libraries) but the basics are covered pretty well in this book. I haven't read the latest edition (mind has no edition # on the outside and has a mail order form to get the source code on floppies, heh) but the authors are solid writers and this was the first book I read to learn C. It covers the essentials, but does skip (at least in the edition I read) the more extraneous things that most authors skip, such as function pointers and sometimes unions. It also does not explain the common programming ideas, like hash tables and linked lists, however, I would highly recommend this book if you're just starting out. You might wanna grab a book on more advanced programming or a C algorithms book and then maybe a special interest book like SDL or OpenGL, but this is a great introduction to the language itself.
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days (4th Edition) by Jesse Liberty ISBN: 067232072X Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Absolute Beginner's Guide to C (2nd Edition) by Greg Perry ISBN: 0672305100 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 08 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: C Programming Language (2nd Edition) by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, Dennis M. Ritchie ISBN: 0131103628 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 22 March, 1988 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: C For Dummies®, Volume One & Two Bundle by Dan Gookin ISBN: 1568849397 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 24 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours (2nd Edition) by Tony Zhang, John Southmayd, John Southmayd ISBN: 067231861X Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.75 |
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