Book Review: Pointers on C

The book 'Pointers on C' is an excellent book for the person with a working knowledge of the C language. If the reader does not know this, the reader will be made painfully aware of it in the first chapter.  Instead of the typical "Hello World" one line program, the program explained in the first chapter is one only a person who has written programs would understand. In the explanation of the program and throughout the rest of the book, the author sites good and bad programming practices. This is exactly why I like this book. It covers C programming in a unique way.

In the second chapter, the author discusses lexical rules and the importance of good program style. Each chapter is devoted to one topic: Data, Statements, Operators and Expression, Pointers, etc.

As the reader probably guess, the book elaborates on pointers.  There are three chapters focused on pointers and chapters with partial focus on pointers. These chapters include the chapters titled Arrays, Using Structures and Pointers and Advanced Pointer Topics as well as many other chapters. 


The book also contains a chapter on the Preprocessor, abstract data types and the run-time environment.


This book is a practical book on the C language. I've had this book for years and have referenced it while I was an embedded systems software engineer. 


Pointers on C
Written by Kenneth A. Reek
Published by Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0-673-99986-6