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| C Programming: A Modern Approach, 2nd Edition
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Edition: 2
Author: K. N. King
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date: 2008-04-19
ISBN-10: 0393979504
ISBN-13: 9780393979503
List Price: $97.50
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The first edition of C Programming: A Modern Approach was popular with students and faculty alike because of its clarity and comprehensiveness as well as its trademark Q&A sections. Professor King's spiral approach made it accessible to a broad range of readers, from beginners to more advanced students. With adoptions at over 225 colleges, the first edition was one of the leading C textbooks of the last ten years.
The second edition maintains all the book's popular features and brings it up to date with coverage of the C99 standard. The new edition also adds a significant number of exercises and longer programming projects, and includes extensive revisions and updates.
Highlights of the second edition include:
• Complete coverage of both the C89 standard and the C99 standard, with all C99 changes clearly marked
• A quick reference to all C89 and C99 library functions
• Expanded coverage of GCC
• New coverage of abstract data types
• Updates to reflect today's CPUs and operating systems
• Nearly 500 exercises and programming projects-sixty percent more than in the first edition
• Source code and solutions to selected exercises and programming projects
• A password-protected instructor site containing solutions to the remaining exercises and projects, plus PowerPoint presentations for most chapters
Excellent product and service
| Customer Rating: | | I received my book in pristine condition and the seller had very fast and courteous service. I would definitely consider purchasing from this seller again! :) |
C Programming Made Easy
| Customer Rating: | | I am backtracking a bit by taking C Programming. I already know C++ and C#, but C Programming is required for my major. This book is easy to understand, or maybe it is for me with my previous experience. However, it seems that the non-programmers in my class are grasping the concepts using this book. The only down side is that the book has errors that were not caught in the editing process prior to publication. However, the author maintains a website that identifies the post publishing errors and also contains solutions to select problems from the book. I like this book. It is concise and light, so it does not weigh down my backpack. |
Engaging, approachable and ACCURATE
| Customer Rating: | I ordered K.N. King's ``C Programming: A Modern Approach (Second Edition)'' from Amazon for my recent birthday. Having had more birthdays than I care to admit, this gift to myself is right up there with a Lionel train set I got for my eighth birthday (not from Amazon, of course -- it didn't exist that long ago but passengers trains sure did :)).
In this second edition, I think that KNK is now the logical heir to K&R. That's not meant as blasphemy -- Kernighan and Ritchie's still great volume is around 20 years of age and it's unlikely they'll be getting together for K&R3. The C language has undergone enough changes (with the amendment of 1994) and C99, that a ``Modern Approach'' really is needed.
There's another author familiar to readers of the comp.lang.c newsgroup for his approachable, engaging writing style. That author is a wonderful writer but doesn't let the truth get in the way of good narrative. King, though, is an equally engaging writer but is obviously passionate about correctness and adhering to the C standard. He's also meticulous about portability so that the examples are written in pure C and not some platform-specific variant.
I've the entire book and can find hardly anything even nitpick. Aside from a minor style difference about using parentheses with the ``sizeof'' operator, which King explains his rationale for doing so, that's about it.
His explanation of C99 (and the differences from C90 are clearly indicated) made me aware of some really nice features of the current standard for the language (and makes me wonder why one very notable compiler implementer hasn't yet supported C99).
In short, get this book. The Q&A sections at the end of each chapter are very well done. The exercises and programming projects help to amplify the material presented. And King's examples will teach you more about barcodes and ISBN numbers than you ever thought possible.
If you can appreciate the work of a fine craftsman in film such as Martin Scorsese, you'll find that King is of that caliber in the realm of lucidly dealing with this technical subject.
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Simple, great student oriented book
| Customer Rating: | | This book was an excellent complement to the professor I had for basic C programming. I'd venture to say that even someone with little to no computer experience could learn from it. One really nice feature is the Q & A section where obvious questions about the material are asked and then answered by the author such as: "Why is the C language so terse?" There is not an excess of information, but it gives a great deal of examples and even source code so you can see how the system compiles it. If I were teaching myself the C language, this would probably be the first book I went to. |
too much
| Customer Rating:  | | in order to really understand what was going on you need to intently read every single word. There are no solutions for the excercises which i thought were too difficult, and many times the means to find the answer could not be found in the chapter. |
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