The C Answer Book

The C Answer Book is the answer guide to the C Programming Language

This tutorial companion to the second edition of The C Programming Language offers complete solutions and full explanations to all the exercises found in Kernighan and Ritchie's book. Careful study of The C Answer Book used in conjunction with The C Programming Language will help the reader understand C and teach him good C Programming skills. The authors in their Preface write "You cannot learn a programming language by only reading the language constructs. It also requires programming, writing your own code and studying those of others. We use good features of the language, modularize our code, make extensive use of library routines and format our programs to help the reader see the logical flow".

The C Answer Book contains all the answers, complete with explanations to all the problems given in The C Programming Language by authors Ritchie and Kernighan. It is the lesson guide for the 2nd edition of this book and will help readers understand the intricacies of programming using the language C. The authors have said in the introduction that it is not possible to fully learn a programming language well just through reading. In order to become a skillful programmer you need to code and learn from others written code. The books depicts the logical flow of the code clearly by using the language's features, create exhaustive library routines and efficient formatting.

The book has a tutorial introduction, followed by topics like the UNIX system interface, types, operators and expressions, functions and program structure, input and output, control flow, structures and pointers and arrays. The 2nd edition of the C Answer Book was published by Prentice-Hall in the year 1988 and it is available in paperback.

About the Author

Clovis L. Tondo is President of T&T TechWorks, Inc., a company that provides technical training in C, C++, and UNIX tools to major corporations and produces books for technical publishers. Dr. Tondo is also author of The C Answer Book and coauthor of eight books on C, device drivers, MAKE, and data structures.