Let Us C 12th Edition

I don't understand why this book is so hugely popular! Its highly harmful if you want to sustain a career in IT.
This is a typical example of how you should never write code.
It teaches bad programming style...doesn't care about standards and is full of toy examples that do no good when you sit for serious coding.
My suggestion (and also suggested by many reputed coders): go for a book called "C programming - a modern approach" by K. N. King (2nd ed.) and when you have grasped the basics and want to delve in deeper, go for the ultimate: "The C programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie.
The first book is probably not available as a local print(flipkart has an imported edition, i guess) but you can always get an ebook from... you know where! The second is a classic and is off-course available. Its also pretty cheap here at flipkart (~120 bucks).

There's nothing more harmful than bad learning. So, there...

Happy learning and happy coding!

This book is followed by most of the engineering students (specially big hit in non-premier colleges) in our country. The reasons may be many: written by an IITian, having lots of code samples (most even dont compile on various compilers) etc etc. But I have found this book really a joke!!

Author (and may be your seniors too) may try to convince you that there is nothing beyond this book in this ocean of C but trust me, this book will ruin your career. You will realize that when you will come to professional development in C. This book does not give a damn to best practices to be followed, writing code that will run on all compilers, things to avoid etc.

I personally feel that there are thousand other better books then why to blindly chase it, just because many other idiots are following it. I could have given it a zero star for spoiling the career of many but had to go with one.

This book explains the language of C going into the very details of everything...It's a nice book for someone who is new to the language and is starting his journey into the big C world..Not for the programmers though!!

I remember the 4th edition of this book that I have purchased around 11 years ago and started my programming and still I dare to give the review today. At that time I was a lay person to computers and programming. Believe me I was able to start with computers and programming on all my own. I also studied the 5th edition of the book later.

Best C programming book to start with. C programming is the defacto standard for any one to get introduced and learn programming and this book does it in excellent way.

Most striking features of the book (4/5th edition) are:
1. Perfect and straight to the point explanation.
2. Indepth coverage of c and some important concepts of computer hardware
3. The chapters 11 onwards are explained very well for all intricacies of language.
4. Puzzling and interesting exercises at end of every chapter for a newbie
5. DOS interrupts / services and hardware interaction through C.
6. Programming on bits / bytes, extremely useful appendices at the end of book.
7. The most important 8086 addressing scheme explained.

I have also seen that from 7th edition onwards the chapters on hardware interaction, interrupts and some appendices are deleted. New chapters on C programming on Linux and Windows are added.

Anyways I enjoyed all the C programming on my old computer. Suggest every one to read the 4th or 5th edition of this book, but its not available. Still not a problem, go through the present available version and you will gain a lot.

Also one can go through another and most important book on C, titled The C programming language.

I started my programming career with BASIC and after learning about 10 programming languages I still remember the wonder of those days while I was reading 'Let Us C'. I loved it and got a deep realization of how to write a good book. No matter which technology you use or which coding style you follow, there is always something beyond it and that is the ability of writing a captivating textbook.
I completed this book like a Dan Brown thriller and jumped to another Kanetkar book. I don't think I was wrong. Now as a .NET programmer I CLAIM MY RIGHT to say that 'LET US C' is the best book ever written which can really make you to be with C and it is the only book that can make you fall in love with C.

"It all depends how we C it!" - The introduction starts like this and the author is really successful in converting 'C' from a noun to a verb. Learning 'C' is the most thrilling experience in a programmer's life and it is really like an action.

Whenever you are in some coding organisation and some of your colleague comes to with with some difficult coding issue, you tell him, "Let me C if I can solve it." Let Us C is not only a book if is also the name of a passion, a passion for the computer science, a tribute to the father of all modern computing technology and be it on Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, Symbian or iOS, C is the only thing that made it possible.

Today when many schools start to teach programming directly through C++ or Java, one big question really remains unanswered will those students ever be able to do any sensitive programming that can give us the smoothness of iOS or the majesty of Linux.

I want to advise one who is really eager to learn modern programming to follow this path...

Let Us C > Understanding Pointers in C > Data Structures Through C (Optional) > Let Us C++ >> {Then choose any of C#, Java or Visual C/C++ depending on your need}
For Java - Java The Complete Reference
For C# - Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Step By Step > Wrox Professional C# 4.0
For VC/C++ - Visual C++ Programming (again Kanetkar) > Wrox Begining Visual C++ 2010
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Then anything your passion wants and now you are capable of finding a 'good programming book' by yourself.