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It is a risk to by the preorder sight unseen. If you are not familiar with author and his style you could end up feeling like you wasted that money. So until a
by throwaway17_17 7y ago
It is a risk to by the preorder sight unseen. If you are not familiar with author and his style you could end up feeling like you wasted that money.
So until a preview chapter or similar is available I’ll through this link to Modern C, 2nd Ed by Gustedt. It has been well received and I thought Jens writing style was solid.
I don’t know if it is the perfect second book to read on C, but it seems well paced and things are well explained.
https://modernc.gforge.inria.fr/ https://modernc.gforge.inria.fr/
- rcseacord 7y agoI'm checking with No Starch if we have plans to release a sample chapter of this book. There is a list of previous articles I've written including sample chapters from my previous books on Secure Codign in C and C++ and the CERT C Coding Standard here https://www.informit.com/authors/bio/3312572e-d904-45d5-afcd-389361c0f5af https://www.informit.com/authors/bio/3312572e-d904-45d5-afcd... Here is a newer article on Uninitialized Reads published by ACM https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3041020 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3041020 Jens and I are both on the C Standards committee. I would definitely say that our books serve different markets.
- throwaway17_17 7y agoI have your book on Secure Coding and I have the latest version of Jens’ book as well. I like both your style and his, in terms of writing style and presentation. If you think there is going to be a large difference in applicability and focus when comparing your ‘Effect C’ and Jens’ ‘Modern C’ I am kind of excited, not just to get your book, but also that even though some people would like to see C be relegated to the trash bin there is still some life left in a language I enjoy using.