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Title: C Unleashed (Unleashed) by Richard Heathfield, Lawrence Kirby, Mike Lee, Mathew Watson, Ben Pfaff, Dann Corbit, Peter Seebach, Brett Fishburne, Scott Fluhrer, Ian Woods ISBN: 0-672-31896-2 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 07 July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting and diverse topics; good C advice
Comment: First of all, the book gets four stars instead of five because of the horrible, horrible editing. Typographic errors abound, including inside programs, where the formatting is often not what the author intended (like the many instances of spaces *inside* the decrement operator); at least one figure is chopped off, and some tables are incorrectly formatted too. The authors don't share the same coding style, and the editor fails to make the programs look consistent across the book. Generally, I found SAMS books lacking in both content and presentation, but this is an exception, as the content is great. Shame on you, SAMS, for making a mess of the presentation.
That said, it is a very good book; it covers many interesting topics to varying depths, but always deep enough to be useful, and certainly impressively deep considering the breadth and variety of the topics. The strongest point of the book is the advice about how C programs ought to be written, and the special care given to the Standard. As one of my fellow reviewers demonstrates, there are people in need of that advice, although not all of them are prepared to accept it (he gave the book a single star).
An unusual number of authors contributed to this book, which is a Good Thing, as it means that each chapter was written by someone who was very familiar with the topic, rather than by a sigle person who knew what he was talking about, but maybe didn't have lots of actual experience in that particular area. The main author did a good job on keeping the book coherent (I'd usually assign the praise to the editor, but judging by the awful mess they made in other respects, I suspect it was the author's work, not the editor's), yet the chapters make sense on their own. Be sure though to read Part I eventually, it teaches you some good habits, in the likely case you don't already have them all.
Subtle humour (yes, with a 'u' -- Richard Heathfield is British) makes the read entertaining, too; while other technical books are bone-dry or unwisely make forced attempts at being funny, this one seems to strike the right balance.
Rating: 1
Summary: Does not live up to its name
Comment: This book didn't teach me any new or exciting aspects of the C language. The title suggests that this book is going to let the dog of the leash and go wild with the C language but no. The content focuses on the latest C9X standards alot and displays some examples of nice algorithms that have been thought up before by someone else. Great is your a 'strictly by the rules' programmer, but its not for me. There are many good things that can be done in C programming which are non compliant with the C9X standards, particularly inter-system processes, and these are the kind of things I would like to see published in a book of this sort.? It's a pretty basic book which whines on about standards too much and nothing like the title makes out. It focuses on what you can or can't do within the rules of the C9X standards and its quite amusing that the title contradicts the contents of the book. Another one for the charity shop.
Rating: 5
Summary: Like an orange...
Comment: Im not an advaced programmer, but reading some parts... I learned a lot of good things. I couldnt describe them here, but i will implement them on the future projects ahead. Things that I think are essential to the industry grade programmer and to becoming one.
The material was delivered clearly, not necessarily simple... but it is clear. The book is worth all my hard saved money... and im glad to have it, and its fun to read too...
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Title: Linux Programming Unleashed (2nd Edition) by Kurt Wall, Mark Watson ISBN: 0672320215 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 18 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: C: A Reference Manual (5th Edition) by Samuel P. Harbison, Guy L. Steele ISBN: 013089592X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 21 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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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): $42.00 |
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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++ for Dummies (4th Edition, Completely Revised) by Stephen Randy Davis ISBN: 076450746X Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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