Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days

By James Biser Whisker and Kevin R. Spiker

Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days, Fifth Edition presents C programming techniques in a logical and easy-to-follow sequence that helps you understand the principles involved in developing C programs. Learn the basics of writing a program, then move on to arrays, pointers, disk input/output, functions, and more. This book covers the basics of C including variables, constants, conditional statements, loops, pointers, data structures, input/output, and functions. Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days, Fifth Edition, presents C in the most logical and easy-to-learn sequence, and is geared towards programmers learning the C language. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672317664
• ISBN13: 9780672317668
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 878 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Book for Getting into C

Despite all the hype for C# and C++, if you know and understand C, you could probably write those other languages. C can get very complex (as far as numerous functions and libraries) but the basics are covered pretty well in this book. I haven't read the latest edition (mind has no edition # on the outside and has a mail order form to get the source code on floppies, heh) but the authors are solid writers and this was the...

Excellent book for Learning C

Let's make things clear: This book teaches the ANSI C Programming Language. It does not teach any of the following... * Windows Programming * Algorithm design * Object Oriented Programming * C++ * Advanced Programming In 1996, when I first began to learn programming, I bought the first edition of this, along with about 5 books. Very quickly I had set all the rest aside. In 5 years, it is the best book on pure C programming...

This book does a great job of teaching C.

I think this book does a great job of teaching the C language. And I am going to be frank about those people who gave it low reviews: They simply lack the necessary pre-requisite knowledge to understand programming.If you don't know what a program is, etc, you are not ready to learn programming. You need to learn the basics of how computers work first.Second, to the person who said "I couldn't get anything to work". Obviously,...

I get it now!

I never thought I'd see the day when I was comfortable with C again (having been out of it for almost 10 years), but that day is here and it's arrived because I read this book. It's neither an easy read nor a quick one, but it's well worth the effort. Take the time to go through the examples (with or without a debugger), and do the exercises at the end of each chapter. You won't be sorry!

Awsome!

Hi, i recommend this book to everyone. Listen, I'm 14 years old, and with this book, i can say that I now am a C programmer, really, it's a really great way to learn C... a lot of examples, step by step explanations, and everything is covered in this book, from memory management to pointers.