Practical C Programming: Why Does 2+2 = 5986?, Edition 3

Name: Practical C Programming: Why Does 2+2 = 5986?, Edition 3
Rating: 3.722222328186035 (36 reviews)

Steve Oualline

Aug 1997 · "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

3.7

36 reviews

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456

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There are lots of introductory C books, but this is the first one that has the no-nonsense, practical approach that has made Nutshell Handbooks® famous.C programming is more than just getting the syntax right. Style and debugging also play a tremendous part in creating programs that run well and are easy to maintain. This book teaches you not only the mechanics of programming, but also describes how to create programs that are easy to read, debug, and update.Practical rules are stressed. For example, there are fifteen precedence rules in C (&& comes before || comes before ?:). The practical programmer reduces these to two:

Multiplication and division come before addition and subtraction.

Contrary to popular belief, most programmers do not spend most of their time creating code. Most of their time is spent modifying someone else's code. This books shows you how to avoid the all-too-common obfuscated uses of C (and also to recognize these uses when you encounter them in existing programs) and thereby to leave code that the programmer responsible for maintenance does not have to struggle with. Electronic Archaeology, the art of going through someone else's code, is described.This third edition introduces popular Integrated Development Environments on Windows systems, as well as UNIX programming utilities, and features a large statistics-generating program to pull together the concepts and features in the language.

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3.7

36 reviews

Nicholas

May 20, 2013

Technical reading often can be tedious and difficult to follow, but this O'Reilly book by Steve Oualline captures the essentials from the bottom up for someone completely fresh to programming.

3 people found this review helpful

A Google user

August 12, 2012

I really like the comment about the book not covering c++ completely. Lol I really hope it was a joke.

1 person found this review helpful

Drashti Panchal

October 29, 2017

This books very costly

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