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I needed to learn to program in C for my job. Unfortunately I was unable to find any community college or other in-person type courses that taught C programming. I spent several months struggling trying to learn C through Element K and other online resources. Having previously used the Visual Quickstart series to learn HTML, I finally purchased the C Programming Visual Quickstart Guide. It was the best purchase I have... Read Full Review

It is a wonderful Introduction to C!!! I have seen many other books dealing with programming, but this is definitely the best. Even for an almost absolute beginner like me this book presented a format, a style and a quality to get understand pretty easy. For PC and Mac users alike; and the given examples work - what in most books it is not the case! I wish the authors would write a book about Objective - C in the same style!... Read Full Review

If you wanted to get up to speed with C without having to read thousands of pages in order to understand one concept then this book does a fantastic job. Good book to start on and i would recommend it to anyone!!

Co-written by Larry Ullman and Marc Liyanage (professional trainers of software engineers), Visual Quickstart Guide: C Programming is a text specifically intended for beginning to intermediate-level programmers who need to assimilate the basics of programming in C as swiftly as possible. Using a visual, picture and example-centered approach to show how to perform basic tasks, C programming eschews long-winded passages for... Read Full Review