Re: C Programming

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On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 08:10 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:17:01PM -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> > Invest in a copy of "C How To Program" by Deitel and Deitel, ISBN
> > #0-13-226119-7.  It is the best choice for beginning programmers.
> 
> Wow, I could not disagree more. Despite its widespread use as a textbook,
> I feel that this is one of the poorer choices. My major complaint is that
> it's full of forward references -- it constantly says "don't worry how this
> works -- we'll get to that later". And to add insult to that, when you get
> to later, it often says "as you learned before", refering back in a circle
> to the part which explained nothing! Plus, where there are explanations,
> they're often obtuse and needlessly confusing.

We'll have to agree to disagree.  Forward references arent a problem as
long as the topics are taken care of, I havent' seen a case where they
havent been.  Also the explanations that I've seen are neither obtuse
nor needlessly confusing.  In any case this is a very poor complaint for
the book; for some reason you seem to be grasping at straws.


> 
> (This goes *triple* for "C++ How TO Program".)
> 
> 
> Additionally, since it's a textbook, it comes with the ridiculous price of
> $80 or more.

Well you should have stopped with the first paragraph, now you're
displaying rank propaganda.

http://product.half.ebay.com/C-How-to-Program_W0QQprZ2473666QQtgZinfo

The last second edition I bought I got for around 15 bucks.

> 
> Perhaps you had a really good teacher in a class which used this as a text?
> That could really make up for the problems.
>  
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> Matthew Miller           mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx          <http://mattdm.org/>
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> 

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