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by: Richard Heathfield, Lawrence Kirby, Ian Woods, Steve Summit, Ian Kelly, Jack Klein, Peter Seebach, Scott Fluhrer, Ben Pfaff, Mike Lee, Brett Fishburne, Sam Hobbs, Stephan Wilms, Dann Corbit, Mathew Watson
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780672318962
ISBN: 0672318962
Label: Sams
Manufacturer: Sams
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1392
Publication Date: August 18, 2000
Publisher: Sams
Studio: Sams
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C Unleashed is a very comprehensive book on the ANSI C programming language. This book promotes solid, portable programming using ANSI C, thus benefiting programmers on any platform, including mainframes. Covers the New Standard for C, known as C9X, and includes embedded systems, simulation processing, threading and multiprocessing, digital signal processing, and natural language processing.
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I note some of the later reviews kind of tanked this book but I am inclined to disagree with the naysayers. I had just been paroled from a 3-to-5 year sentence at a SoCal sweat shop where this book was purchased to avoid attending some in-house classes conducted by the resident, egomaniacal C guru who was attempting to hang onto his tenuous hold over other employees by brow-beating them, otherwise insulting their abilities, motivation, and (when all else failed) their lineage. To suppliment the dubious benefit of these sessions (and obviate the hell-week atmosphere), I purchased this book and used it as a substitute. I found that it taught me everything that the dolt was attempting to do without near as much pain. The book does not strictly build on previous chapters as well as it should, but does present pretty fair illustrations of what a maintenance type will encounter in the older C code bases that they sign on to maintain. Sure, it's not organized as well as it should, but have you ... Read More
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First of all, the book gets four stars instead of five because of the horrible, horrible editing. Typographic errors abound, including inside programs, where the formatting is often not what the author intended (like the many instances of spaces *inside* the decrement operator); at least one figure is chopped off, and some tables are incorrectly formatted too. The authors don't share the same coding style, and the editor fails to make the programs look consistent across the book. Generally, I found SAMS books lacking in both content and presentation, but this is an exception, as the content is great. Shame on you, SAMS, for making a mess of the presentation.
That said, it is a very good book; it covers many interesting topics to varying depths, but always deep enough to be useful, and certainly impressively deep considering the breadth and variety of the topics. The strongest point of the book is the advice about how C programs ought to be written, and the special care given ... Read More
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This book didn't teach me any new or exciting aspects of the C language. The title suggests that this book is going to let the dog of the leash and go wild with the C language but no. The content focuses on the latest C9X standards alot and displays some examples of nice algorithms that have been thought up before by someone else. Great is your a 'strictly by the rules' programmer, but its not for me. There are many good things that can be done in C programming which are non compliant with the C9X standards, particularly inter-system processes, and these are the kind of things I would like to see published in a book of this sort.? It's a pretty basic book which whines on about standards too much and nothing like the title makes out. It focuses on what you can or can't do within the rules of the C9X standards and its quite amusing that the title contradicts the contents of the book. Another one for the charity shop.
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Im not an advaced programmer, but reading some parts... I learned a lot of good things. I couldnt describe them here, but i will implement them on the future projects ahead. Things that I think are essential to the industry grade programmer and to becoming one.
The material was delivered clearly, not necessarily simple... but it is clear. The book is worth all my hard saved money... and im glad to have it, and its fun to read too...
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I found this book to be very poorly written and unsatisfactory. It contained lots of bad algorithms and poor coding. Much of the code was unusable and the methods explained were very simple. I could have done without it to be honest. Avoid this book if you want to learn how to program properly
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