Re:Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
by itronitron on Monday January 15, 2024 @05:23PM
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Unfortunately "The C Programming Language" has enough typographical errors in it to seriously undermine it's utility as a book with which to learn programming.
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Re:Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
by trealira on Monday January 15, 2024 @06:14PM
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What are the typographical errors? I didn't think it had any.
It does use features of C89 that may not compile after C99, but those aren't weird.
But, as someone who actually did try to use K&R to teach themselves to program, I agree it's not ideal for that. It's definitely not the best programming book ever, which some people say. The exercises are pretty good, though.
Re:Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
by itronitron on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @03:49AM
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In the section on Pointers and Addresses there are a few spots where the pointer or dereference operator is not included in the code examples.
Re:Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
by trealira on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @06:46PM
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Sorry for the late reply. Could you specify some page numbers as examples? (There's only one version of the book, so the pages are all the same.)
Re:Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
by itronitron on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @05:24AM
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Looks like I downloaded a bad copy... the following has an error at the top of page 87 (there are a few other errors in the same chapter but I don't have my notes handy)
https://venkivasamsetti.github.io/ebookworm.github.io/Books/...
The pdf of the book at this link does not have the error (page 84),
https://seriouscomputerist.atariverse.com/media/pdf/book/C%2...
so hopefully it's just an issue with the pdf from the github link.