I bought Deitel & Deitel - C: How to program

[FSX]

Hello everyone,

I have bought the book in its 3rd edition (I am only interested in the C
part so I bought one used) and I am very satisfied!

Greets,

FSX

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[FSX]

FSX said:


It's an excellent book. (I have the fifth edition.) The extraneous
material in the back strikes me as being an unnecessary waste of
paper, but the C material is very good indeed - and there are
plenty of high quality exercises.

The only problem is that the book uses scanf for the examples and I have
read that it's better to use fgets() and strtol() which I have found to be
too complex for me to understand at the moment...

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[FSX]

FSX said:


I think of scanf as being a rather advanced and esoteric function,
difficult to use correctly and in some ways less flexible than it
looks at first sight (although, in other ways, *more* flexible!). I
am at a loss to know why it is used so often in introductory texts,
especially early on - but they all do it (except K&R, who only
mention it once in passing before introducing it in section 7.4,
the seventh chapter of their eight-chapter tutorial).

I believe it's so often used because of its apparent simplicity (it's just
like an INPUT command from BASIC at first sight), so novices like me can do
basic input without pretending to know anything else. But as soon as I will
get the grasp I will use fgets() and strtol() (which now for me are rather
obscure)...

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[Keith Thompson]

I have bought the book in its 3rd edition (I am only interested in the C
part so I bought one used) and I am very satisfied!

Uh, right. Please don't discuss pirated material here.