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by Harvey M. Deitel (Author), Paul J. Deitel (Author)
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  • Paperback: 1253 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3 edition (8 Sep 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0130895725
  • ISBN-13: 978-0130895721
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 17.8 x 4.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 622,670 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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.



From the Back Cover

The complete, authoritative guide to C, with concise introduction to C++ and Java™

This Third Edition of the world's most widely used C textbook carefully explains C (535 pages) and presents substantial introductions to C++ (298 pp.) and Java (346 pp.).

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the principals of Deitel & Associates, Inc.. the internationally-recognized corporate training and content-creation organization specializing in C++, Java™, C, Visual Basic®, Internet, World Wide Web, XML™, Python, Perl and object technologies. The Deitels are also the authors of the world's #1 C++ and Java textbooks, C++ How to Program, 3/e and Java How to Program, 3/e.

In C How to Program: Third Edition, the Deitels introduce five of today's most popular programming paradigms. Key topics include:

  • Procedural programming (in C)
  • Classes and objects (C++ and Java)
  • Inheritance/polymorphism (C++/Java)
  • Generic programming (C++ templates)
  • Event-driven programming (in Java)

C How to Program helps students build C, C++ and Java applications. It includes:

  • Hundreds of "live-code" programs with screen captures that show exact outputs
  • Extensive self-review exercises (many with answers) accompanying each chapter
  • Hundreds of tips, recommended practices and cautions—all marked with icons

C How to Program is the centerpiece of a complete family of resources for teaching and learning C, C++ and Java, including Web sites (www.deitel.com and www.prenhall.com/deitel) with the book's source-code examples and other information for faculty, students and professionals; optional interactive CD-ROMs (C++ Multimedia Cyber Classroom and Java 2 Multimedia Cyber Classroom) containing thousands of hyperlinks and audio walkthroughs of the hundreds of code examples in C++ How to Program and Java How to Program—and e-mail access to the authors at deitel@deitel.com

For information on worldwide corporate on-site seminars and Web-based training offered by Deitel & Associates, Inc., visit: www.deitel.com

For information on all Deitel publications including How to Program Series books, Multimedia Cyber Classrooms, Multimedia Cyber Classrooms, Complete Training Courses (that include Deitel books and Cyber Classrooms)and Web-Based Training Courses please see the last few pages of this book.



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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars annoying and no exercise answers available, 3 May 2001
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I bought this book to learn C programming and whilst the text is rather interesting the examples are lacking in a little depth. My other main reason for buying the book was to try out all the other exercises - fine there are a lot of them but no answers available. If you are learning C then how do you know that you are doing the exercises correctly and when you get stuck with a concept there is no way for you to look anything up. This book seems to be aimed at those people at college who have a tutor to fall back on but some of us dont have that. I have now been told that if i want the answers to about half the questions then i can buy the C++ cyber classroom... however this seems to cover mainly C++ not C and why on earth should I pay extra money for something that should have been included with the book. (I also cannot find it as a standalone product) My advice save your money there are better C books out there
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars could have been better, 20 Aug 2003
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having read (well half of it) java how to program which i was very impressed with. this was my second deitel & deitel book, it was pretty much what i expected, no prior knowledge of programming, starts from scratch and explains every little detail of the programs that are written. you wont go away asking youself "how does that work or why does that do that" all the information is in the book. But out of 30 chapters only 14 are about c programming, the rest goes into java and c++. deitel obviously want us to move away from c and into oop programming. but c is still widely used. i would liked to have seen perhaps a section on linux programming, make files, socket programming etc (basically something useful). i got the feeling they wanted to get the c parts out of the way and move on to oop with c++ and java.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Think carefully before buying..., 29 May 2002
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This was my first computer science book and basically the one that introduced me to C programming. It's rather well written and gives an in-depth (maybe too much) explanation for all the aspects of C. One would say that this is a book for beginners but I would somehow doubt that. In a way I agree with a previous reviewer (who rated it with one star) on the aspect that this book mainly refers to 1st Year Computer Science students and not to anyone who wants to learn programming. That's not anything illegal but I believe it should be stated somewhere. Somehow the book goes into alot of detail which for a non programmer or for someone who has no basic knowledge on computer hardware would be gibberish and make him lose interest on the topic. I reckon that up to chapter 6 (C fundamentals) the book is nearly perfect but when you get to Pointers and the more specialised C features everything seems chaotic. I mean if I hadn't known some OOP I would never be able to figure out what in Zeus' bum Structures and Linked Lists are used for. The most devastating of all chapters though is the Data Stuctures where the authors just come up with a definition and a "LIVE-CODE(TM)" example and never actually explain why would someone want to use these in a program and how does the program actually works. In the introduction he states that this is a very challending C topic and that the explanation is in detail (B.S). The analysys on the source code refers to a bloody Digital System Designer rather than a novice programmer. The only actually good thing about this book (and generally the Deitel series) is the rich collection of exercises. But as previously stated by other reviwers this is ruined by the lack of answers. I mean the author states that some of the exercises are very challenging and yet he doesn't provide any answers! Nevertheless the exercises are the only thing that don't make me regret buying this book. It's the compensation to non-CS students (who will need to practice on something) for making their life harder. On the other hand the CD-ROM is frankly - and excuse me french - complete RUBBISH, as it only has the exercises and the codes from the book and some SHAREWARE ("Free to try") software like Borland Compilers and that sort. I.e. nothing but another cheap advert...
...the cover says 'C how to program (with an introduction to C++ and Java)'. Now out of the 30 chapters in the book only 14 have to do with the actual C programming language (the rest is only an "introduction"). At some point in the book the author states that if someone wants a more analytical explanation on C features should purchase the Ritchie and Kernighan's book (which by the way as I recall it's no more than 250-300 pages - the extra babbling I was talking about). Now if the authors really wanted to cover all the topics of C they could either skip the babbling and cut to the chase or simply include the rest 16 chapters of the book and kill the brief 'introduction to C++ and Java' (about 600 pages!!!). I believe that the 16 chapter introduction (in a 30 chapter C textbook) is nothing but a petty advertisment for the Deitels' 'C++, advanced C++, Visual C++, Java, Advanced Java' and apparently for their 'Advanced C' text book that will probably come out in the future.
...I'm being fair by rating this book with 3 stars, mainly because of the rich collection of exercises at the end of each chapter which I found very helpful (and for sentimental reasons because it was my first C book). I would only recommend this book to Computer Science students who could get some extra help from their lecturers. For amature programmers I would suggest to purchase a different textbook and get the Deitels' exercises from their website. For everyone else I would recommend the good old Bible 'The C programming languange' by Ritchie and Kernighan. Because as the makers of C have stated C is not a big language and it doesn't require a big book (i.e. control your babble Mr Deitel&Mr Deitel).
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