"Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days" but is it any good?

crm · 08-03-2004, 06:19 AM

im thinking of looking at learning C so i can start teaching myself some proper programming to help with *nix development (apparentally basic dosent quite cut it in a unix environment

:P ) i have herd one or two good-ish things about this book (id rather have a book as i cant reed reems of stuff off a screen, its not nice on the eyes). should i get it.

zekko · 08-03-2004, 11:01 AM

Maybe good to take out from a library, but chances are you don't need to buy it. After you read that, you should get "The C programming language", which is the best book on C but its not the best if you already don't know C (does that make sense?).

R00ts · 08-03-2004, 11:32 AM

I don't trust any book, programming or other, that promises you mastery in a certain time-frame. Just a personal distaste really. The best way to learn any programming language is to use it, not read about it. That's a fact

320mb · 08-03-2004, 01:05 PM

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Originally posted by R00ts
I don't trust any book, programming or other, that promises you mastery in a certain time-frame. Just a personal distaste really. The best way to learn any programming language is to use it, not read about it. That's a fact

where in the title of the book does it say Mastery???
D'oh

The Sams books are excellent starting points.........you'll learn the basics and then
from there you can go on to more advanced topics using different books.........
you can find Most of these "Sams" books on the Web in pdf or ebook form........so you really don't need to buy it.........

itsme86 · 08-03-2004, 01:13 PM

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id rather have a book as i cant reed reems of stuff off a screen, its not nice on the eyes

Proud · 08-03-2004, 02:42 PM

If you dont like looking at a lot of text on a monitor for extended periods then maybe programming isn't for you

j/k

Chris Parker · 08-04-2004, 01:07 PM

Good book. I have used it to teach people C, and it covers all of the basics.

The Kernigan/Ritchie book "The C Programming Language". While it is an excellent book, it is anything but an introductory text for the C programming language. The above poster was absolutlely correct.

Find someone around who who knows the language, and buy him/her lunch.

rob0t · 08-04-2004, 02:41 PM

I bought "teach yourself c++ in 21 days". I only read about 1st week before going back to perl. I guess it is a good book for those who already know some kind of a programming language.