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Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays

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On 06/12/16 14:31, Alla _ wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at 1:58:15 PM UTC+3, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> On 06/12/16 10:53, Alla _ wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at 1:23:28 PM UTC+3, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>>>> On 06/12/16 06:46, Alla _ wrote:
>>>>> On Monday, December 5, 2016 at 9:16:27 PM UTC+3, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>>>>>> Deitel and Deitel is a reasonable book. Or at least I thought it was.
>>>>>> Are you telling me the example code came from that book? If so, Deitel
>>>>>> and Deitel have gone catastrophically downhill.
>>>>>>
>>>>> No no no, this example is not from that book, I have not yet started it. This example is from
>>>>> a tiny (53 pages) book on pointers, dating from 1997 or so.
>>>>
>>>> That, at least, is a relief. Now that you know the book is seriously
>>>> flawed, do you plan to continue using it?
>>>>
>>> I am done with that book, as I have said yesterday - it served its purpose, and that's it;
>>> I don't need it anymore )
>>
>> You didn't need it before, either.
>>
>> You need to get out of your head the idea that "this book is about C,
>> therefore this book is good". Most books about C are written by people
>> who don't know C terribly well.
>>
>>> I have K&R and Deitel books.
>>
>> For learning C, those two are sufficient. Please don't confuse yourself
>> by getting any more, not until you've learned the language well enough
>> not to be confused by wrong information.
>>
> I have decided to add for the sake of complete honesty: although, yes, I
> won't look for any more books for now, I have quite a few of them already,
> including the MIT one on algorithms, and much more ))) But! I will not
> even try to open them for now, that's for sure. At least I know my further
> steps, and it's always good to look and plan beyond current possibilities )

Books about algorithms are fine. I was only talking about books on C. 
Sometimes, of course, C is used in books on algorithms. The trick is to 
learn the algorithms from the algorithm experts, and C from the C 
experts. K&R are of course C experts, and it isn't too much of a stretch 
to say that Deitel and Deitel are, too. Also acceptable are Harbison & 
Steele, and (so I am told) K N King ("C Programming: A Modern 
Approach"). Oh, and let's not forget Steve Summit (C FAQs).

Don't make the mistake of thinking that experts on other subjects are 
necessarily experts on C. Charles Petzold, for example, has a 
tremendously in-depth knowledge of the Windows programming API, but his 
C is absolutely gerharsterly.[1] The trick is to be able to extract the 
good teaching and leave the bad C behind.


[1] Out of curiosity, I looked up this word in a Web search just now. To 
my surprise, I only got seven hits. To my even greater surprise, *all 
seven* of them were Web copies of articles I had posted to Usenet.

Oh well. I guess this makes it eight.

-- 
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
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Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 07:45 -0800
  Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-05 17:03 +0000
    Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 09:43 -0800
      Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-05 18:16 +0000
        Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 22:46 -0800
          Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-06 10:23 +0000
            Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 02:53 -0800
              Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-06 10:58 +0000
                Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 03:42 -0800
                Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 06:31 -0800
                Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-06 14:49 +0000
                Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 08:22 -0800
                Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-06 16:48 +0000
                Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 09:15 -0800
          Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-06 08:20 -0800
        Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 22:53 -0800
  Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-05 09:26 -0800
    Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 09:47 -0800
      Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-05 12:10 -0800
    Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 10:00 -0800
    Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-05 19:11 +0000
      Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-05 12:21 -0800
  Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-12-05 12:50 -0500

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