Do NOT... For any reason go out and spend 90 bucks on a college style book... You'll only get disappointed. For some reason programmers like to try and dazzle you with their knowledge and fancy terms. To avoid this try going to Barnes and Nobles and pick up "The absolute beginners guide to C" for 20 dollars. I have never heard any of the people I recommended this book to complain about it.
That and don't be ashamed of the "C++ for dummies" books either. They have foot notes you can remove from the book and some come with free compilers.
The greatest thing is that they are in laymans terms so you can actually read and learn the material besides just sit with a thesaurus and guess the terms.
Is this the reason why these books never mention the complexity of
scanf function, never mention that using
gets after
scanf may result in disaster, never mention that
fgets is the best way to take in strings, never mention that
fflush (stdin) has undefined functionality ?
These things appear in the posts of programmers which
try to dazzle and show you their knowledge dont you think so ?
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