Re: Opinions about a book

On May 4, 4:19 pm, nembo kid <nembo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> What do you think about the following book:
>
> C How to Program, 5/E
> (Harvey & Paul) Deitel & Associates, Inc.
>
>
<http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/academic/product/0,3110,01324...>
>
> Thanks in advance.

Deitel has some fine programming books, their Java How to Program (7th
ed) is excellent, however they don't seem to have done as well with
their C books.  For me the text can be overly verbose and contrived,
the fact that a significant ****tion of the book is dedicated to C++
and Allegro (a video game library) is a big turn-off for me.  For over
$100 I don't want half the text devoted to something I am not
interested in, and if I was interested in these things there are books
dedicated to the topics that provide a much better treatment.  I would
suggest you check out C Programming: A Modern Approach 2nd Edition
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393979504/knking>
which just
came out, focuses completely on C and is a fair bit cheaper than
Deitel's offering.

--
Robert Gamble