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| Expert C Programming
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Edition: 1st
Author: Peter van der Linden
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Release Date: 1994-06-14
ISBN-10: 0131774298
ISBN-13: 0076092031222
List Price: $42.99
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Defying the stereotypical notion that technical books tend to be boring, Expert C Programming offers a lively and often humorous look at many aspects of C--from how memory is laid out to the details of pointers and arrays. The author reveals his points through invaluable anecdotes, such as stories of costly bugs, and through folklore, such as the contents of Donald Knuth's first publication. Each chapter ends with a section entitled "Some Light Relief," which discusses topics (topics that some may consider to be "recreational"), such as programming contests. A fabulous appendix on job interview questions finishes the book.
Great book and service
| Customer Rating: | I had this book in PDF format before and liked it so much that I bought the book. An excellent book for advanced c/c++ programmers, a very good insight in linker, assembler. The book is all you need to learn many ambiguities of c.
Also, the book arrived in condition as described. Great service. |
Title says it all
| Customer Rating: | | One of the best books I have seen on C programming. Interesting stories and author's ability to explain dusty corners of C language are really appreciated. I wish someone could have recommended this book to me during school days. Anyway, it is never late to read this book. |
Expert on C, not expert on programming in C
| Customer Rating:  | This book helps you on the way of becoming an expert on the C programming language, it is not much help for the purpose of becoming an expert on programming in C.
What's the difference? Well, on the dimension from language lawyer to poet, this book falls more on the lawyerish side. In the same way that grammatically correct sentences in a natural language are rarely great poetry, so correct C programs are not necessarily great programs. Correctness is necessary, yes, but hardly sufficient.
Van der Linden has little to say (or if he has, he doesn't tell) about topics such as good style at a small scale and doesn't at all touch how to structure programs at the large scale. Things like how to avoid name clashes, structure header files, handle errors, avoid resource leaks.
The C programming language is still very much alive, and as far as I can tell, the place on the shelf for a book on C Patterns & Idioms is still vacant, waiting to be filled. |
Pure Depressing Awesomeness
| Customer Rating: | | Every programmer should read this richly detailed tutorial for/polemic against the C programming language. While it will certainly help programmers improve the quality of their C code, it also shows definitively why developing reliable C software will always be far more difficult than it needs to be. This is one of the finest software engineering books I have ever read. |
Tremendous book
| Customer Rating: | What an amazing book. Who better to write about the subtle nuances of C programming than a man that wrote a compiler? This book is not an introduction (if you couldn't tell by the name), nor is it a place for quick tips. The explanations are not long-winded, but they are complete. Peter hits on all the high points that are often not adequately explained in most books on C, that you really need to know to program correctly. After reading this book, I think the whole pointer/array thing is put to rest...at least for me. The job interview questions at the end were very helpful to me...I'm not going to take a job as a programmer any time soon, but they still tested my knowledge of the language and of programming in general. I gained a lot out of the last chapter, which is an intro to C++...I've been floundering trying to understand OOP and how to program in it, and Peter gave a VERY nice, clear introduction to the basic concepts.
I enjoyed Peter's humor (sometimes laugh out loud, which makes anyone raise their eyebrow when they see the book title) and writing style. It was a very delightful text to read.
This book is an absolute must have for anyone that programs in C (as a second book on the subject). It should be required reading for anyone that teaches a course on C programming. |
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