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. > > -- > Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> > Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> > LX -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us!" -- Turkish proverb Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
