I just took a look at the "LOOK INSIDE!" sample available on amazon.com. A few observations:
The front cover says it's been "Updated for C11", but all the sample programs use "main()" rather than "int main(void)". The form without an explicit return type has been invalid since C99.
Page 11:
"In 1983, ANSI created the X3J11 committee to set a standard version of C. This became known as ANSI C. The most recent version of ANSI C, C11, was formally adopted in 2011."
That's loosely correct, but in fact the 1990, 1999, and 2011 editions of the C standard were published by ISO, not by ANSI (and later adopted by ANSI). Furthermore, it ignores the fact that the phrase "ANSI C" is commonly but incorrectly used to refer to the 1989/1990 version of the language (see gcc's "-ansi" option, for example).
Page 16:
"These are functions:
main() calcIt() printf() strlen()
and these are commands:
return while int if float"
No, those aren't "commands", they're keywords. I can't think of any reasonable meaning of the word "command" that would include "int".
Page 26:
The sample program listing is not properly indented.
Page 36:
"\b moves the cursor back a line".
No, it moves the cursor back a column.
A book for beginning C programmers should not have these kinds of errors after three editions.
The front cover says it's been "Updated for C11", but all the sample programs use "main()" rather than "int main(void)". The form without an explicit return type has been invalid since C99.
Page 11:
"In 1983, ANSI created the X3J11 committee to set a standard version of C. This became known as ANSI C. The most recent version of ANSI C, C11, was formally adopted in 2011."
That's loosely correct, but in fact the 1990, 1999, and 2011 editions of the C standard were published by ISO, not by ANSI (and later adopted by ANSI). Furthermore, it ignores the fact that the phrase "ANSI C" is commonly but incorrectly used to refer to the 1989/1990 version of the language (see gcc's "-ansi" option, for example).
Page 16:
"These are functions:
main() calcIt() printf() strlen()
and these are commands:
return while int if float"
No, those aren't "commands", they're keywords. I can't think of any reasonable meaning of the word "command" that would include "int".
Page 26:
The sample program listing is not properly indented.
Page 36:
"\b moves the cursor back a line".
No, it moves the cursor back a column.
A book for beginning C programmers should not have these kinds of errors after three editions.