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• Paperback: 1312
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; Fourth edition (January 28, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131426443
• ISBN-13: 978-0131426443

This is used in FSU’s CGS 3408 course: “Introduction to Programming with the C Language.” In the preface, the Deitels state that this book is for everyone (beginners to experts) who want to learn C. They’ve made a very good stab at that goal, but realistically, I’d have to say that those who are professional programmers in other languages will find this book too long for their needs. For beginners (and even those moderately versed in other languages), this is an excellent book. I really have only three minor gripes about it:

- First, throughout the C portion, the book uses scanf as the default for getting user input. Unfortunately, as my compiler warned me constantly (and I verified on the web), scanf has been “deprecated” (I guess that’s a fancy way to say don’t use it, use something else). Unfortunately, the book talks about alternative IO in only one chapter near the end of the C portion and very rarely uses it. So, this book teaches as a standard an input method that’s been superseded.