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Title: A horrible way to begin
Review: I had to teach from this book, and was extremely disappointed in so many ways. Their chapter (7) on \pointers barely scratched the surface of memory management in C. Additionally, the book does a poor job in de\monstrating weak typing in C. The worst parts of the book, however, are the numerous code examples. My stude\ nts, much to their frustration and my shock, even stumbled across one that failed to compile! Aside from this\ , the code examples are written sloppily, without much regard for readability or an eye towards industry codin\ g standards. This book should be removed from the shelves as soon as possible! The only virtue contained in \ it is a pretty fair section dealing with output formats. Otherwise, it is a menace to the profession, teachin\ g poor coding style and brushing off the most powerful aspects of the C programming language.
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