Awesome reference book.

C Primer Plus is an oddly written book. It treats its readers as absolute, or extremely novice programmers, yet if you try to read through the book from cover to cover, you could easily be overwhelmed over the amount of content. I wouldn't recommend the book ALONE as a sole source for a newcomer to C, there are better books that make the learning experience less overwhelming.

With that said, I still highly recommend keeping this book on your shelf as a reference point and/or to use as a different view into a concept. It doesn't cover all of C and the standard libraries, but it covers the most important points and functions. The explanations tend to be more detailed and better than free resources such as sites like [...].

My main gripe, as with most programming books, are with the code examples. The author sacrifices readability of the code (nesting function calls within an already lengthy scanf() statement, for example) for shorter code length. I'm sure this was done for logistic reasons, but I fear many newcomers will copycat the style of coding, a bad habit that'll be hard to break in the future. However, the code examples are very clear and concise.

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