July 2000
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
10h 19m
English
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Preface
Some friends and I were talking a few years back about computer books and bookstores in general. At the time, it seemed to us like no one was writing any books for people who already knew how to program. Every book on the shelf was a 900-page behemoth whose first few chapters told you how to turn on your computer, why the particular language was so great, and so on. The last eight chapters were always reference. We were convinced that if you took any one of these two-ton masterpieces and ripped out the irrelevant information, or information that could be found in the documentation, at best you would be left with about 200 pages of pertinence. That was our theory, anyway.
We decided it would be really great if someone would write a book that was skinny. These skinny books would contain the juiciest tidbits of programming information—the ripest fruits from the tree of coding knowledge. Anything superfluous would be hacked away and left by the wayside. The skinny book would assume that you already knew why you were using a particular programming language. Therefore, it could forego the first three chapters found in most of the other books. It would be exciting to read cover to cover, because there would be something for everyone in each chapter. And last, but not least, it would serve as a reference that you could come back to again and again.
Now, there are a few such skinny books that I can think of off the top of my head. The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and ...
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