C For Dummies, 2nd Edition

I bought a million books before taking a class in C. This was one of them.It seems okay, I guess, but not great. I ended up using the Dietel book for class, which was amazing - although I'm not positive I would have enjoyed it so much without the aid of an instructor.I think the best book I used for learning on my own was by Apress - but I generally like all of their books.

I bought this book because other reviewers said it was very good. And it is well organized and written. Some reviewers thought that the jokes were superfluous, and some are. It would be nice if the so called humor was marked so you could skip it, as it does not really add to the learning. The problem I had with the book is that I could not see how the programs to ran from my IDE because the DOS window would flicker and close instantly. Starting them from the CMD prompt was slow because I had to type in the whole directory name - which seemed to be made unnecessarily long for no reason (as least not explained in the book). I had to go on line and search for answers - like finding a needle in a haystack for someone who knows nothing about programming like me. It would have been so much easier if the author had explained how to do this in Chapter 1. If you have buy this book and use and IDE and you cant get your programs to run, try entering - getchar(); - before the last line - return(0);. You may have to add that line after the - scanf(); functions also.Another problem is the very first program. The classic program that everyone in the world writes for their first program is called the "Hello World" program. The author chose to distort that to the "Goodbye Cruel World" program. This was an unfortunate choice, quite tactless. The is such a huge problem with teen and young adult suicide these days, many of these kids are depressed, at the very age when one is learing how to program, that this seems to be insensitive. He could have tried "Look out World, here I come!

This book is really good! I used my iPad to read this book, and the quality is good!

I am working through the book to teach my daughter programing. A GREAT book. I highly recommend it-- just not the Kindle version because the code examples are too small and almost illegible. The code examples cannot be resized on the Kindle or with the PC or IPOD/phone apps. I have talked with the Dummies.com customer support (They were very responsive.), but they say there is nothing they can do about it. It is a limitation of the Kindle format. (I bet there is a way, but someone just doesn't want to do it.)After playing around with it, I found that if you change the Kindle to landscape view (screen rotation) you can see the code much better. This makes the Kindle format of this book more acceptable. Also in the PC app, maximizing the window does the same thing and makes the code readable.

I like it as it is one of the few books that are pure C (I use it in my microcontroller class) and it costs about 1/5 of what C textbooks cost. Lots of examples and still on line support. I recommend it as a good start to anyone who wants to learn C. Some topics, like file I/O are lacking, but otherwise it is a good first book,

it wasn't up to his usual standards. I HOPE HE WILL DO A BOOK '' SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 10.0 there so many catholic schools that have this galaxy note 10.0 A book for them as well as myself would be great.

This book is excellent for getting a jump start if you have never or hardly ever coded C. I found this book full of straight to the point information and you begin putting your skills to the test immediately. Great buy.

I wanted this book to help give me a background in C before learning Objective C. It works well, but can have loooong explanations.

Arrived on time. Good starter book. A bit too thick for dummies, I would say.

Great intro book to the topic. I would recommend this and some basic online resources for all beginners.

Excellent product.

Book arrived exactly as promised. Great service, thanks very much

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