C How to Program (3rd Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)Anyone in his first year of engineering/Computer science is haunted by the nightmare of writing programs.The experience is common....the first time I saw a program(which seemed as cryptic as some enigmatic script from paleolithic era)....I said to myself...."GOD--WHY ME??".Our text "C Program design for engineers " didn't help much.
Then I lay my hands on this wonderful wonderful book.The best thing about this book is that it does not assume any prior programming experience on the reader's part.Another feature that I found extremely helpful is the use of LIVE CODE approach...which technically shows you the output for every program.The treatment is quite exhaustive and subsequent chapters are based on concepts covered in previous chapters.Once you are through with C....the book gradually introduces object oriented programming with C++ and then Java.The point is, even though languages like c++ and Java have more functionality than C...you need to learn C?WHY?....well if not for anything else, then for appreciating the features of an Object oriented language like Java.Trust me...I learnt Java first.....and it always lingered in my mind, WHY an object oriented language?After learning C...I know the answer.
One piece of advice, if you are learning programming outside your school curricula or on your own......you are better off with a book like Ivor Horton's Begining C.
By the way, just get one Deitel Book, don't buy the same author's Java-how to program, if you already own a copy of C-how to program.....because they use the same programs in all their books just changing the syntax.....more than half of these books is the same....so use that money to get a different author's perspective.:)

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For CS1 and other courses covering programming in C. Also appropriate as a supplement for upper-level courses where the instructor uses a book as a reference to the C language.This comprehensive text is aimed at readers with little or no programming experience. Highly practical in approach, it introduces fundamental notions of structured programming and software engineering and gets up to speed quickly. The book covers not only the full C language, but includes a review of library functions and a solid introduction to C++, Java, and object-oriented programming.

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