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4 Reviews
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J.S. (testing) said on Oct 20, 2005 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Johnlcf said on Jul 24, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Manuel M Calavera said on Apr 2, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Grammar and vocabulary, just lacks some usage
I think I can just confirm what tons of reviews by more attentive persons than I am say: The rules and some very interesting code is inside this book, and there's everything you should know of the C language pertaining to its structure (data structures and functions to operate upon them), but I gues ... (continue)
sturmer said on Dec 8, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Hardcover 272 Pages
- Edition: 2nd
- ISBN-10: 0131103709
- ISBN-13: 9780131103702
- Publisher: Prentice Hall
- Pub date: May 01, 1988
- Also available as: Paperback
- In other languages: other languages
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One of the most misguided ideas in programming pedagogy is the idea that you have to seduce people into programming by starting with simple, fun, graphical stuff. Some people think that the best way to learn programming is to start with HTML, maybe, and then learn how to cut and paste some javascrip ... (continue)
One of the most misguided ideas in programming pedagogy is the idea that you have to seduce people into programming by starting with simple, fun, graphical stuff. Some people think that the best way to learn programming is to start with HTML, maybe, and then learn how to cut and paste some javascripts, and then move on. Another misconception is that you should start with a trendy, marketable programming skill like Java or Web Database Programming.
Well, those people are wrong.
For various reasons too complicated to go into here, I believe that you have to start programming at a level that is as close to the machine as reasonable. I think that this book, universally known as K&R, is THE book anyone who wants to be a programmer must learn first. Pick it up and work through it in detail. If you love every minute of it, you can be a programmer. If you find this old-school text programming stuff boring, or the pointer stuff drives you crazy, trust me, you're not going to like programming very much. If you need to be seduced into programming or if you don't have the patience to figure out what all those crazy asterisks mean, you're going to be happier doing something else. Really. But if you can make it through this book by yourself, you've got what it takes to be a top gun programmer, and you've got a terrific foundation for everything else you're going to learn.
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