C Primer Plus (Developer’s Library) 6th Edition by Stephen Prata (PDF)

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C Primer Plus is a carefully tested, well-crafted, and complete tutorial on a subject core to programmers and developers. This computer science classic teaches principles of programming, including structured code and top-down design. Author and educator Stephen Prata has created an introduction to C that is instructive, clear, and insightful. Fundamental programming concepts are explained along with details of the C language. Many short, practical examples illustrate just one or two concepts at a time, encouraging readers to master new topics by immediately putting them to use. Review questions and programming exercises at the end of each chapter bring out the most critical pieces of information and help readers understand and digest the most difficult concepts. A friendly and easy-to-use self-study guide, this book is appropriate for serious students of programming, as well as developers proficient in other languages with a desire to better understand the fundamentals of this core language. The sixth edition of this book has been updated and expanded to cover the latest developments in C as well as to take a detailed look at the new C11 standard. In C Primer Plus you’ll find depth, breadth, and a variety of teaching techniques and tools to enhance your learning: Complete, integrated discussion of both C language fundamentals and additional features Clear guidance about when and why to use different parts of the language Hands-on learning with concise and simple examples that develop your understanding of a concept or two at a time Hundreds of practical sample programs Review questions and programming exercises at the end of each chapter to test your understanding Coverage of generic C to give you the greatest flexibility

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⭐Product was good but had some writing on it and the front cover was slightly damaged.

⭐I have both 5th and 6th editions of this book. Great reference materials. This author is concise, meticulous, and accurate.Some things I wish this book included were some tricks or examples which aren’t as mundane. Some delving into strategy to deal with non classroom problems would be nice. As usual this simply covers the core of C with some additional information regarding C!x and C11. I browsed over this in about 2 hours and didn’t see much change from the fith edition when it came to examples.Furthermore I’m a little disappointed that there wasn’t a chapter dedicated solely to the differences in C11 and C99 that was covered in his 5th edition. Additionally, it would be nice to have some of the more obscure features of C explained in further detail. Some examples of this are C scope and exactly what that means for programming and isolation. The use of examples around this is paramount in understanding how some compliers implement the language. I’ll give an obscure example which I don’t believe is mentioned in the book simply because the feature is considered taboo to C.Scope can easily be understood with the goto statement. if I were to put a label for goto in c inside a separate scope ( ie, a block of code can be isolated to it’s own scope with curly braces ). Then I can goto this, but can’t goto some label which is not within that scope. in other words, I can’t go into a curly braced section but then cannot go back out of it later because the scope has changed during execution. This is an aspect of coding and scope which isn’t exemplified very well. Not that goto is a good thing to use in C, unless of course you are trying to explain scope and some of the quirky things with you can do with curly braces.As a result there are some nuances which are otherwise lost in reference. Another example is the for loop construct and the survival of initiator variables outside of the scope of the loop and what happens to them after the use. Again this is just me remembering how scope can be very useful tool in this language although most of my knowledge is based around compliers interpreting my code. As a result, what’s supposed to be happening in theory doesn’t always pan out. I have had a few programs allow me to use the established variables in the for loop initiation again after the for loop breaks. this is extremely useful if you need to use a loop iteration value for some other calculation. the initiated variables following the for declaration in parenthesis don’t go always go away and understanding scope becomes paramount.This book still provides excellent information and I cannot give it any less than 5 stars.

⭐A preface about my programming knowledge: I am an experienced C programmer (since 2001) and have programmed for Linux, DOS, Windows, Palm OS, Mac OS X, and a few other systems (including my own OS). I have experience programming for x86, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM, and some SPARC. I also know C++, Java, and Pascal.As for my review of the book, I have read the first 5 chapters of this book then skimmed the remaining portions of the book stopping at various unspecified locations to read the text. I have spotted an error or two but as long as you read enough of the surrounding text you should be able to figure out what it should be.The text is descriptive and concise, it covers the current topic at hand with good context and detail. There are forward references to later concepts you will read about in later chapters, however when they are used it is not in a way that would confuse you if you never have programmed C before. I have not found any imposing of stylistic issues such as whether to use tabs or spaces, curly braces on the next line or same line, asterisk placement, etc., although the book sticks to one style (except in the cases to show valid programs formatted differently).There are many different implementations of C and 3 major versions of C such as C89, C99, and C11. This book differentiates between such standards to inform you of whether a feature is part of C89, C99, or C11. The oldest standard throughout the book is C89 at least so you will not find K&R style function declarations. There are also mentions to note that if you run into trouble, such as compilation errors, that your compiler supports too old of a standard.As for implementations and systems, the book says that you should not expect one system to be the same as another, which is something that I like.There is a short reference at the back of the book as per the functions in the standard library along with information on which standard it is available for.So in short, whether you are very new to programming or an old pro, this is a good book to have in your library.

⭐It looks like the customer reviews for C Primer Plus (by Stephen Prata) are mixed in with another book on C++. So, to be clear, this review is for C Primer Plus (6th Edition).I am a competent R programmer interested in expanding my skills to something more high performance, After struggling through the classic but sparse K&R text on C, I turned to this book. It has not disappointed. I am halfway through the book and now can easily handle basic I/O, different variable types, operators, functions, arrays, pointers (well, are pointer ever easy?) and most (all?) control statements. It is a comprehensive text that thoroughly explains principles including how and why things go wrong. The end-of-the-chapter review questions include answers, and the programming exercises (also at the end of each chapter but sans solutions) are appropriate applications of principles and skills. They were challenging, but not so impossibly hard that they could not be solved. This book, and learning C in general, also provides insight into how computers work – how they are storing the information and how to access that information, for example. Lastly, the book is wryly funny, sprinkled with all sorts of jokes about the inconveniences computers and programming can cause humanity (e.g. From Chapter 10: “There is no need to subject yourself to the ridicule of your compiler.”) I’m sure the book has some downsides, but I have not yet found them. The mistakes in syntax other reviewers refer to appear to have been corrected in this edition.

⭐This book is great for starting and maturing C. I can already program in some higher level programming languages like Java and c#, but this book still managed to learn me a lot of new (even basic) things.

⭐Nachdem ich mich mit der iOS-Entwicklung befasst habe und in der Literatur dazu immer wieder den Hinweis erhielt, dass für ein tiefes Verständnis von dem, was in Objective-C (eine Obermenge von C) passiert, solide Grundkenntnisse in C sehr hilfreich sind, habe ich nach einem umfassenden Grundlagenwerk für C Ausschau gehalten. Durch einen Kommentar zu einer Rezension eines anderen Buches erhielt ich den Hinweis auf den C Primer Plus. Ich bin Wirtschaftsinformatiker und habe entsprechende Vorkenntnisse in der Programmierung.Die reichlich 1000 Seiten lesen sich sehr angenehm und flüssig. Der Autor stellt alle wesentlichen Sprachelemente vor, zeigt dabei die Unterschiede zwischen den verschiedenen C-Standards auf, gibt überschaubare Beispiele und stellt immer wieder Bezüge zwischen den einzelnen Konzepten her. Wichtige oder auf Anhieb etwas schwer verdauliche Kost wird oftmals an anderen Stellen aufgegriffen und aus einem ergänzenden Blickwinkel erläutert. Ergebnis ist, dass ich zumindest subjektiv der Ansicht bin, fast alles verstanden zu haben, was in dem Buch vermittelt werden sollte. In den letzten Kapiteln des Buches wird noch etwas auf gängige Programmiertechniken eingegangen (Listen, Suchbäume etc.) und im Anhang auf weiterführende dazu Literatur verwiesen.Fazit: Ich habe selten ein so ausgezeichnet durchstrukturiertes und didaktisch aufbereitetes Fachbuch gelesen. Insgesamt eine sehr runde Sache. Ich kann es nur wärmstens empfehlen.Das Buch C Primer Plus wurde mir empfohlen, weil ich auf der Suche nach einem passenden Buch war, da ich mich nach mehrjähriger Pause wieder intensiver mit C beschäftigen wollte. C wird dem Leser hier von den Grundlagen bis ins Detail näher gebracht.Jedes Kapitel wird am Ende noch einmal zusammen gefasst und dem Leser werden Fragen bzw. Aufgaben gestellt, um das Gelesene zu verfestigen. Auch kompliziertere Dinge – die mir während des Studiums oft nicht von Anfang an klar waren – werden ausgiebig erläutert und sind gut nachzuvollziehen.Auch, oder vielmehr gerade weil das Buch in englischer Sprache verfasst wurde, ist es leicht verständlich. Viele Beispiele und auch die online verfügbaren Quelltexte tragen hierzu bei. Verwendete Begriffe wären ohnehin die gleichen in deutscher Sprache.Ich habe in der Vergangenheit auch bereits deutsche Bücher über C gelesen und muss sagen, dass das englische Buch C Primer Plus mir mehr geholfen hat. Würde mir also jemals die Frage gestellt, welches Buch ich empfehlen könne, wäre es klar C Primer Plus.Ottimo libro. Ogni argomento è approfondito in modo adeguato e spiegato in modo molto semplice. Per ogni concetto viene presentato un esempio concreto, e questo vale anche per le parti del linguaggio solitamente meno documentate (come i campi di bit e le maschere di bit). Oltre a descrivere il linguaggio, il libro fornisce anche buoni consigli per utilizzare al meglio le funzioni della libreria standard. Perfetto sia per chi inizia che per chi vuole darsi una rinfrescata. Buona anche la carta e la rilegatura: dopo aver letto mille pagine, la costa in brossura del libro sembra nuova. Unica pecca: mi sarebbe piaciuto anche un approfondimento sul multithreading.Un muy buen libro para entender sintaxis de C y el lenguaje en su totalidad, abarca muy bien los temas

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