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Absolute Beginner's Guide C Programming Paperback – 21 Aug 2013

by Greg Perry (Contributor), Dean Miller (Contributor)

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ISBN-13: 978-0789751980 ISBN-10: 0789751984 Edition: 3^rd

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C Programming Absolute Beginner’s Guide is the fastest way to get comfortable and productive with C11. This friendly, practical book will help the reader do exactly what they want, one incredibly clear and easy step at a time. World-renowned tech tutorial author Greg Perry reveals C11’s power, and helps the reader quickly take advantage of it. He provides step-by-step instructions for every task requiring more than one step, many code samples, and screenshots guiding through complex processes. This guide including how to organize a program, store and display data, and work with variables, operators, I/O, pointers, arrays, and functions. Perry presents updated information on the latest C compilers for Windows, OS X, and Linux, as well as valuable new material on C programming for mobile and game development.

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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Pearson Certification; 3 edition (21 August 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0789751984
ISBN-13: 978-0789751980
Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 2 x 22.9 cm
Boxed-product Weight: 581 g
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 36,903 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #146 in Computer Programming Languages Textbooks
- #42 in Object-Oriented Design
- #18 in C Programming Language

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Greg Perry is a speaker and writer in both the programming and applications sides of computing. He is known for bringing programming topics down to the beginner’s level. Perry has been a programmer and trainer for two decades. He received his first degree in computer science and then earned a Master’s degree in corporate finance. Besides writing, he consults and lectures across the country, including at the acclaimed Software Development programming conferences. Perry is the author of more than 75 other computer books. In his spare time, he gives lectures on traveling in Italy, his second favorite place to be.

Dean Miller is a writer and editor with more than 20 years of experience in both the publishing and licensed consumer product businesses. Over the years, he has created or helped shape a number of bestselling books and series, including Teach Yourself in 21 Days, Teach Yourself in 24 Hours, and the Unleashed series, all from Sams Publishing.

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Title	C Programming Absolute Beginner's Guide, 3/e	Learn C the Hard Way: Practical Exercises on the Computational Subjects You Keep Avoiding (Like C)	C Programming in One Hour a Day, Sams Teach Yourself, 7/e	C Primer Plus, 6/e	Programming in C, 4/e
Author(s)	Greg Perry, Dean Miller	Zed A. Shaw	Bradley L. Jones, Peter Aitken, Dean Miller	Stephen Prata	Stephen G. Kochan
Page Count	352	384	720	1080	600
List Price	$29.99	$39.99	$39.99	$59.99	$49.99
Pub Date	08/07/2013	09/04/2015	10/11/2013	11/26/2013	08/18/2014
Binding	Paper	Paperback with DVD	Paper	Paper	Paper
Print ISBN	0789751984	0321884922	0789751992	0321928423	0321776410
Series	Absolute Beginner's Guide	Zed Shaw's Hard Way Series	Sams Teach Yourself	Developer's Library	Developer's Library
Brief Description	Write powerful C programs. ..without becoming a technical expert! This book is the fastest way to get comfortable with C, one incredibly clear and easy step at a time. You’ll learn all the basics: how to organize programs, store and display data, work with variables, operators, I/O, pointers, arrays, functions, and much more. C programming has never been this simple!	Perfect for beginning C programmers eager to advance their skills in any language. Follow it and you will learn the many skills early and junior programmers need to succeed by working through 52 brilliantly crafted exercises with accompanying videos and exercises from Zed Shaw. Fix your mistakes. Watch the programs run. As you do, you’ll learn what good, modern C programs look like; how to think more effectively about code; and how to find and fix mistakes far more efficiently.	Filled with carefully explained code, clear syntax examples, and well-crafted exercises, this is the broadest and deepest introductory C tutorial available. It delivers step-by-step, hands-on experience that starts with simple tasks and gradually builds to professional-quality techniques. Each lesson is designed to be completed in hour or less, introducing and clearly explaining essential concepts, providing practical examples, and encouraging you to build simple programs on your own.	This book teaches principles of programming, including structured code and top-down design. Many short, practical examples illustrate 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.	Whether you’re a novice or experienced programmer, this book will provide you with a clear understanding of this language, which is the foundation for many object-oriented programming languages such as C++, Objective-C, C#, and Java. This book teaches C by example, with complete C programs used to illustrate each new concept along the way. Stephen Kochan provides step-by-step explanations for all C functions. You will learn both the language fundamentals and good programming practices. Exercises at the end of each chapter make the book ideally suited for classroom use or for self-instruction.

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John

Great Book!!!

4 October 2013 - Published on Amazon.com

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I would like to thank the author for doing such a good job with this book. He explains programming concepts clearly and gives example programs to hammer these concepts home. There are 32 chapters and they are short which I really like. There have been some books that ramble for 30+ pages before even a line of code. Not this book, a couple pages at most and then to coding. Programming is very difficult for me and always has been. This book has helped me a great deal. I actually wrote a couple simple programs. I would recommend this book to anyone. I have dabbled with VB, C# and JavaScript. I should have started with C. C is like the parent of the others and the "genetic code" has been passed down to the other languages. If you are a Newbie, start here if you are looking for a simple but full understanding. Good luck!!! Anyone have recommendations as to what the next C book should be? I am very interested in data acquisition and graphing live data.

87 people found this helpful

Devin Stone

6 Stars! Start your new career here. It doesn't get any better than this.

16 October 2015 - Published on Amazon.com

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This book is absolutely phenomenal. The authors do an amazing job explaining programming concepts clearly and concisely, step-by-step and without rushing. I don't understand all the negative reviews about the 'code samples' links because you don't need to use them anyway, all the samples are clearly printed in the book and you'll be doing yourself a favor if you re-type them in your code editor and learn from your own errors vs. copy and pasting them. I struggled to learn programming before and went through half a dozen 'beginner's' books, none of which took the time to explain things clearly. C is a great place to start because of its stricter syntax, it will force you to understand the concepts of programming which you can then use to learn higher level languages. I can't thank the authors enough, except to say, please write more books - I'll buy them!

Note: if Code::Blocks doesn't work for you, make sure there aren't any spaces in any of the file path folders, the compiler can't see the spaces and breaks. Other than that, Code::Blocks is a great free IDE for learning. Thank you Mr. Perry and Mr. Miller for writing a true beginner's book that is designed to foster conceptual understanding, practical knowledge and will increase the learner's confidence level with each chapter.

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Asterysk

Probably the best book to learn C !

9 August 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

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Wow, I am blown away at how well written this book is, it’s like the Author is reading my mind and then magically provides the answer to my question. It covers the basics and builds up , basic stuff I had forgotten and basic stuff I never knew bug should have , then builds up logically and smoothly.

The only gripe I have is with the printing of the book , the “tips” are printed in a very faint typeface and it’s impossible for me to read unless I have light and reading glasses ( the main text doesn’t require this for me ).

Yes there are a few errors in the book and the online Errata only lists one piece of code , however, the errors turn out to actually be good for prompting some analysis

I’ve got a stack of C books and this one is my favourite

The publisher support is beyond terrible but then again I just bought a book and there aren’t many good publishers anyway

One person found this helpful

Easy to learn!

31 March 2016 - Published on Amazon.com

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I've been working in the IT field for two years with no experience in programming. I wanted to find a C Programming book with the very basics. This book is absolutely great for beginners! I'm only a few chapters in and have learned a lot. There is some research involved outside the book to get a more in depth feel, which I didn't mind at all. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to shift into the programming field or just wants basic knowledge of C.

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DPC

Codeblocks version is way newer to what this book is written for

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For the most part, I was writing code "correctly", and you could see that the book is dated, but then chapter 5 the code just does not work-at all. Also, because the book was written so long ago, there was this problem in the beginning that needed to be fixed before I could begin at all. Here is the code, I wrote it word-for-word and there is nothing:

main()
//my variable for the program

char firstInitial, middleInitial;
int number_of_penciles;
int number_of_notebooks;
float pencils = 0.23;
float notebooks = 2.89;
float lunchbox = 4.99;

//information for first child
firstInitial = 'J';
middleInitial = 'R';

number_of_pencils= 6;
number_of_notebooks= 4;

printf ("%c%c needs %d pencils, %d notebooks, and 1 lunch box\n", firstInitial, middleInitial, number_of_pencils, number_of_notebooks);
printf("The total cost is $%.2f\n\n", number_of_pencils*pencils + number_of_notebooks*notebooks + lunchbox);

//Information for 2nd child

firstInitial = 'A';
middleInitial = 'J';

int numer_of_pencils = 10;
number_of_notebooks = 3;

printf("%c%c needs %d pencils, %d notebooks, and 1 lunchbox\n", firstInitial, middleInitial, number_of_pencils*pencils + number_of_notebooks*notebooks + lunchbox);

//infor for third child

firstInitial = 'M';
middleInitial = 'T';

number_of_pencils = 9;
number_of_notebooks = 2;

printf("%c%c needs %d pencils, %d notebooks, and 1 lunchbox\n", firstInitial, middleInitial, number_of_pencils, number_of_notebooks);
print("The total cost is $%.2f\n", number_of_pencils*pencils + number_of_notebooks*notebooks + lunchbox);

return 0;

/* res of Program would follow*/

Obviously, one would like the book to have more resources, but there is nothing. Kinda upset over this.