Title: Very good - but slow(ish)?
Product review: I bought this book knowing that is was slow moving, which was what I thought I would want from it, having found all other C books way too technical. Whilst this book is good at getting over the very basic concepts of C (OK I haven't read vol. 2 yet), it is the other extreme - very very very slow moving. By page 150 it is just getting past printing stuff in pure text mode onto the screen. I guess I under-estimated myself in terms of how well I would pick up the functions!I thought it was too slow for me, although did help me a little with the slight differences between C and say, Perl, which I already had some experience with. If I hadn't had any experience with Perl, I think this book would have been ideal! As for a comment I saw saying that the programs don't compile properly, it has been tested on Microsoft and Borland C compilers, and I tried using the generic instructions with DJGPP (a freeware compiler) and they worked fine!
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