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Expert C Programming
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Expert C Programming

by Peter van der Linden
June 1994
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 28m
English
Pearson
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Preface

Browsing in a bookstore recently, I was discouraged to see the dryness of so many C and C++ texts. Few authors conveyed the idea that anyone might enjoy programming. All the wonderment was squeezed out by long boring passages of prose. Useful perhaps, if you can stay awake long enough to read it. But programming isn’t like that!

Programming is a marvellous, vital, challenging activity, and books on programming should brim over with enthusiasm for it! This book is educational, but also interesting in a way that puts the fun back into functions. If this doesn’t seem like something you’ll enjoy, then please put the book back on the shelf, but in a more prominent position. Thanks!

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