Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1st edition January 1, 1987
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0131097865
ISBN-13: 978-0131097865
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
The publisher, Prentice-Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics
Most texts on C programming lack essential technical background material--assuming (erroneously) that beginning programmers wouldn't understand it, and that advanced programmers already know it. Intermediate- level programmers on the other hand find the existing texts either not sufficiently comprehensive, or inaccessible and overwhelming. This supplement corrects these problems in two ways: 1) it provides background material useful for understanding the C language (making even the most advanced texts more intelligible, and 2) it looks in depth at several advanced topics (e.g., sophisticated uses of pointers and subroutines with a variable number of arguments).
Customer Reviews & Comments
I had been introduced to C before I knew assembly and was left wondering the magic behind the curtains.. what happens when u call a function.. when u declare an array.. I mean I knew that it must mean something in assembly but the link was not there in any of the C books I looked up. For an engineer who knows hardware and is curious, there is no other place than this book. Holub breaks up C into assembly and show you what happens as you compile and run it, side by side. He takes the mystery out of C programming. Wonderful for folks who missed the link between assembly and C. C has been called as High level assembly language and the proof is here in this book.
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