Jamsa's 1001 C/C++ Tips/Book and Disk

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Summary: An excellent reference with full of examples.
Review: Every page of this book is loaded with examples. A perfect desktop reference for C language. I wish there were more books like this one for all languages.

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Summary: Great Reference Book for C Programming
Review: I am just an occasional C programmer, self taught using video tapes, books, and CDs. I have used this book as a reference to jog my memory sometimes when I do need to write some code. In fact I have used it soo much over a period of time that I wore out one copy and had to buy another. I thought Kris did a very good job of expaining things and if I needed to jog my memory on something it was much faster to do it with this book than any of the others I used. I thought his examples under most of the tips were comprehensive enough to make it very clear, at least it did for me. I gave this a 5 star rating becouse it is the only book I have worn out on the subject.

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Summary: "tips" are really lessons
Review: Rather than a collection of tips for experienced programmers, this is really a series of short lessons that build upon one another (many of them start with the words "As you have learned..."). It is disappointing that most of the "Advanced C" tips are DOS-specific, and he doesn't get around to C++ topics until tip 803. Fortunately, I only spent $1.49 for the book, so I didn't have high expectations.