Description: I routinely program using FORTRAN language and bought this book to help me learn enough C/C++ to be able to link FORTRAN and C code together within the WINDOWS environment. Using this book and the help of other programmers I was able to get where I wanted to go. I found this book quite inclusive but also quite disjointed, especially for one just learning C. If I had no other programming experience, this book would have been very tough to grasp. To me, it presents the building blocks of the C language very well, but its hard to fit all these blocks together without some initial outside assistance. I agree that some of the author's wording is repetitive ("As you have learned" must have been his first phrase he was taught in school); and some of the examples don't compile- although some are meant not to compile and the user is left to straighten them out using information from previous readings in the book. I use 2 C compilers (the one in the text and one in my FORTRAN for WINDOWS suite); ..
ISBN:
1884133258
Release Date:
02 January, 1997
List Price:
$59.95
Author:
Kris A. Jamsa, Lars Klander
Publisher:
Delmar Learning
Last Updated:
06/26/2003
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