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- From: david.mohorn@sourcebbs.com (DAVID MOHORN)
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- Subject: Schildt <- Advanced Books
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- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 96 17:09:00 -0500
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- M>: Oh, C'mon guy! Aren't you being a bit tough on Schildt?
-
- M>The rather tedious nonsense about the void main() declaration is being
- >blown out of all proportion. First of all, Schildt uses
-
- M> main() {
- M> }
-
- M>as the declaration in 99.99% of all books I've seen. The other 1% has
- >arguements. He must have used void main() in the Annotated Standard
- >since people discuss it so much. If so (I haven't read the book),
- >it is very unusual for him.
-
- The only book that I know of that uses the notorious void main(void) is
- his "Teach Yourself C" book. But he only uses this for the first half
- of the book. This is only because he doesn't want the reader to be
- overwhelmed with all the data types and other things until he has a
- chance to explain how functions return values and pass arguments.
-
- I haven't read the "Annotated Standard" book either.
-
- M>: I mean, I
- >: think he writes the best books--they are easy-to-read, give good
- >: explanations, and presents everything in a well-to-do organized manner.
-
- M>I agree. The use of the Mastery Learning Theory in the Teach Yourself
- >C and C++ books is perfect for C.
-
- I agree!
-
- M>: Turbo C/C++: The Complete Reference
-
- M>I love this book, I've practically worn it out. It has about 95% of
- >all the material Schildt has ever written on C and C++.
-
- I think it is a great reference!!! Now if Schildt will just write a
- "Teach Yourself Assembler" book that blows Mark Goodwin's book away.
- This book really stunk. It was nothing more than the User Guide that
- comes with the Assembler. YUCK!
-
- M>: And whoever said that Schildt may not know advanced topics,
- >: that's purely nonsense. If anyone has ever read his Advance C book, he
- >: definitely knows what he's doing.
-
- M>Born To Code In C develops a multi-threaded program! That's
- >as advanced as you can get. In DOS, way before multi-threaded OSes
- >like NT and OSF/1 came out.
-
- I agree.
-
- M>Believe it or not, Advanced C is out of print. In the course of writing
- >the C and C++ Review (see attached), I had a chance to ask Schildt about
- >the book and he says that:
-
- Yes, it is out of print, but I managed to get a copy from someone
- through FIDO: "Advanced C". I was recently at a used computer book
- store and saw, "Advanced Turbo C" and bought it too. It is virtually
- identical, but does discuss (if memory serves me correctly) the Turbo
- C's graphics library.
-
- M> * all his books are in the revision stage now, especially the
- > rather dated Teach Yourself C++ which needs to be
- > brought up to AT&T C++ 3.0 with templates and stuff;
- > * he may incorporate some of the statistics and stuff from
- > Advanced C into The Complete Reference and update it
- > with ANSI function prototypes and style -- Advanced
- > C was written *before* the ANSI standard took over.
-
- This would be great. I see his "Teach Yourself C" is not in its 2nd
- Edition.
-
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