Headfirst C

Advance praise for head first c Head First C could quite possibly turn out to be the best C book of all time. I don' t say that lightly. I could easily see this become the standard c textbook for every college C course. Most books on programming follow a fairly predictable course through keywords, control-flow constructs, syntax, operators, data types, subroutines, etc. These can serve as a useful reference, as well as a fairly academic introduction to the language. This book, on the other hand, takes a totally different approach. It teaches you how to be a real C programmer. I wish I hadhad this book 15 years ago! Dave Kitabjian, Director of Software Development, Net Carrier Telecom Head First C is an accessible, light-hearted introduction to c programming, in the classic head First style Pictures, jokes, exercises, and labs take the reader gently but steadily through the fundamentals of C including arrays, pointers, structs, and functions -before moving into more advanced topics in Posix and Linux system programming, such as processes and threads Vince Milner, software developer Praise for other head first books seenIn a wry, hip manner, the authors make learning Java an engaging what're they gonna do next 2 Kathy and Bert's Head First Java transforms the printed page into the closest thing to a gul you' ve eve experience -Warren Keuffel, Software Development Magazine Beyond the engaging style that drags you forward from know-nothing into exalted Java warrior status, Head First fava covers a huge amount of practical matters that other texts leave as the dreaded 'exercise for the reader.. It's clever, wry, hip, and practical there arent a lot of textbooks that can make that claim and live up to it while also teaching you about object serialization and network launch protocols Dr Dan Russell, Director of User Sciences and Experience Research, IBM Almaden research Center artificial intelligence instructor, Stanford University It's fast, irreverent, fun, and engaging. Be careful- you might actually learn something! -Ken Arnold, former Senior Engineer at Sun Microsystems; coauthor (with James Gosling, creator of Java) The Java Programming language "I feel like a thousand pounds of books have just been lifted off of my head Ward Cunningham, inventor of the Wiki and founder of the Hillside Group Just the right tone for the geeked-out, casual-cool guru coder in all of us. The right reference for practical development strategies-gets my brain going without having to slog through a bunch of tired, stale professor-speak Travis Kalanick. founder of Scour and red Swoosh: member of the mit troo There are books you buy, books you keep, books you keep on your desk, and thanks to O'Reilly and the Head First crew, there is the penultimate category, Head First books. They're the ones that are dog-eared mangled, and carried everywhere. Head First SQL is at the top of my stack. Heck, even the PDF I have for review is tattered and torn Bill Sawyer, ATG Curriculum Manager, Oracle This books admirable clarity, humor, and substantial doses of clever make it the sort of book that helps even nonprogrammers think well about problem solving. Cory Doctorow, coeditor of BoingBoing; author, Dowen and Out in the Magic kingdom and someone comes to ozen. someone leaves tozen Praise for other head first books is fun, but they cover a lot of ground, and they are right to the point. 'm really impressed, iscool.'It I received the book yesterday and started to read it .. and i couldnt stop This is definitely tre Erich Gamma, IBM Distinguished Engineer and coauthor of Design Patterns One of the funniest and smartest books on software design Ive ever read Aaron Laberge vp Technology Espn.Com What used to be a long trial-and-error learning process has now been reduced neatly into an engaging averbach Mike Davidson, CEO. Newsvine. Inc. Elegant design is at the core of every chapter here, each concept conveyed with equal doses of pragmatism and wit. Ken Goldstein, Executive Vice President, Disney Online IV Head First HTML weith CSs C XhTML -it teaches you everything you need to learn in a fun coated format Sally Applin, UI designer and artist Usually when reading through a book or article on design patterns, Id have to occasionally stick myself in the eye with something just to make sure I was paying attention. Not with this book. Odd as it may sound, this book makes learning about design patterns fun "While other books on design patterns are saying Bueller.. Bueller. Bueller ., this book is on the float belting out Shake it up, baby! 一 Eric Wuehler I literally love this book. In fact, I kissed this book in front of my wife. - Satish kumar Other related books from OReilly C in a nutshell Practical C Programming C Pocket Reference Algorithms with C Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++ Other books in OReilly's Head First series Head First Programming Head first rails Head First JavaTM Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design(OoA&D) Head First HTML5 Programming Head First html with css and Xhtml Head First Design Patterns Head first Servlets and JsP Head first ejB Head first PmP Head First SQL Head first Software Development Head First Java Script Head First Ajax Head First statistics Head First 2D Geometry Head First Algebra Head first PhP MysQL Head first mobile Web Head First Web Design Head First c Wouldn't it be dreamy if there were a book on C that was easier to understand than the space shuttle flight manual? I guess it's just a fantas David griffiths Dawn griffiths ○ REILLY Beijing· Cambridge· Farnham·KOhn· Sebastopol/·7okyo Head first c by david griffiths and Dawn griffiths Copyright C 20 12 David Griffiths and Dawn Griffiths. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Published by o reilly media, Inc, 1005 Gravenstein Highway north, Sebastopol, CA 95472 O'Reilly media books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. Online editions arealsoavailableformosttitles(http://my.safaribooksonline.com).Formoreinformationcontactourcorporate institutionalsalesdepartment(800)998-9938orcorporate@oreilly.com Series creators Kathy Sierra, Bert bates Editor: Brian sawyer Cover Designer Karen montgomery Production Editor Teresa elsey Production services Rachel monaghan Indexers Ellen Troutman Aig Page Viewers: Mum and Dad. Carl Printing History: pril 2012: First edition and Dad The O'Reilly logo is a registered trademark of O'Reilly Media, Inc. 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Where those designations appear in this book, and O Reilly Media, Inc, was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in caps or initial caps While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher and the authors assume no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein No kittens were harmed in the making of this book. really s This book uses RepKover, a durable and flexible lay-fAat binding ISBN:978-1-449-39991-7 IMI To Dennis Ritchie(194 1-2011, the father of C the authors Authors of head first c David frith Dawn Griffith David griffiths began programming at age 12 Dawn Griffiths started life as a mathematician at when he saw a documentary on the work of seymour a top UK university, where she was awarded a first-class Papert. At age 15, he wrote an implementation of honors degree in mathematics. She went on to pursue Papert's computer language LOGO. After studying a career in software development and has over 15 years pure mathematics at university, he began writing code experience working in the IT industr for computers and magazine articles for humans. He's worked as an agile coach, a developer, and a garage Before joining forces with David on Head First C, Dawn attendant. but not in that order. He can write code wrote two other Head First books(Head First statistics in over 10 languages and prose in just one, and when and Head First 2D Geometry) and has also worked on a host of other books in the series not writing, coding, or coaching, he spends mucl of his spare time traveling with his lovely wife and When Dawns not working on Head First books, you'll coauthor- Dawn find her honing her Tai chi skills, running, making Before writing head first c. david wrote two other bobbin lace, or cooking. She also enjoys traveling and Head first books: Head first rails and head first spending time with her husband, David Programming You can follow david on Twitter at http://tweitter.com/dogriffiths v