On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 08:10 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:17:01PM -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> Invest in a copy of "C How To Program" by Deitel and Deitel, ISBN
> #0-13-226119-7. It is the best choice for beginning programmers.
Wow, I could not disagree more. Despite its widespread use as a textbook,
I feel that this is one of the poorer choices. My major complaint is that
it's full of forward references -- it constantly says "don't worry how this
works -- we'll get to that later". And to add insult to that, when you get
to later, it often says "as you learned before", refering back in a circle
to the part which explained nothing! Plus, where there are explanations,
they're often obtuse and needlessly confusing.
We'll have to agree to disagree. Forward references arent a problem as
long as the topics are taken care of, I havent' seen a case where they
havent been. Also the explanations that I've seen are neither obtuse
nor needlessly confusing. In any case this is a very poor complaint for
the book; for some reason you seem to be grasping at straws.
(This goes *triple* for "C++ How TO Program".)
Additionally, since it's a textbook, it comes with the ridiculous price of
$80 or more.
Well you should have stopped with the first paragraph, now you're
displaying rank propaganda.
http://product.half.ebay.com/C-How-to-Program_W0QQprZ2473666QQtgZinfo
The last second edition I bought I got for around 15 bucks.
Perhaps you had a really good teacher in a class which used this as a text?
That could really make up for the problems.
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