David Griffiths - Head First C: A Brain-Friendly Guide

Beyond the engaging style that drags you forward from know-nothing into exalted Java warrior status, Head First Java covers a huge amount of practical matters that other texts leave as the dreaded exercise for the reader... Its clever, wry, hip, and practicalthere arent a lot of textbooks that can make that claim and live up to it while also teaching you about object serialization and network launch protocols.

Dr. Dan Russell, Director of User Sciences and Experience Research, IBM Almaden Research Center; artificial intelligence instructor, Stanford University

Its fast, irreverent, fun, and engaging. Be carefulyou might actually learn something!

Ken Arnold, former Senior Engineer at Sun Microsystems; coauthor (with James Gosling, creator of Java), The Java Programming Language

I feel like a thousand pounds of books have just been lifted off of my head.

Ward Cunningham, inventor of the Wiki and founder of the Hillside Group

Just the right tone for the geeked-out, casual-cool guru coder in all of us. The right reference for practical development strategiesgets my brain going without having to slog through a bunch of tired, stale professor-speak.

Travis Kalanick, founder of Scour and Red Swoosh; member of the MIT TR100

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Bill Sawyer, ATG Curriculum Manager, Oracle

This books admirable clarity, humor, and substantial doses of clever make it the sort of book that helps even nonprogrammers think well about problem solving.

Cory Doctorow, coeditor of Boing Boing; author, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

I received the book yesterday and started to read it...and I couldnt stop. This is definitely trs cool. It is fun, but they cover a lot of ground, and they are right to the point. Im really impressed.

Erich Gamma, IBM Distinguished Engineer and coauthor of Design Patterns

One of the funniest and smartest books on software design Ive ever read.

Aaron LaBerge, VP Technology, ESPN.com

What used to be a long trial-and-error learning process has now been reduced neatly into an engaging paperback.

Mike Davidson, CEO, Newsvine, Inc.

Elegant design is at the core of every chapter here, each concept conveyed with equal doses of pragmatism and wit.

Ken Goldstein, Executive Vice President, Disney Online

I Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML it teaches you everything you need to learn in a fun coated format.

Sally Applin, UI designer and artist

Usually when reading through a book or article on design patterns, Id have to occasionally stick myself in the eye with something just to make sure I was paying attention. Not with this book. Odd as it may sound, this book makes learning about design patterns fun.

While other books on design patterns are saying Bueller...Bueller...Bueller..., this book is on the float belting out Shake it up, baby!

Eric Wuehler

I literally love this book. In fact, I kissed this book in front of my wife.

Satish Kumar

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Authors of Head First C

David Griffiths began programming at age 12, when he saw a documentary on the work of Seymour Papert. At age 15, he wrote an implementation of Paperts computer language LOGO. After studying pure mathematics at university, he began writing code for computers and magazine articles for humans. Hes worked as an agile coach, a developer, and a garage attendant, but not in that order. He can write code in over 10 languages and prose in just one, and when not writing, coding, or coaching, he spends much of his spare time traveling with his lovely wifeand coauthorDawn.

Before writing Head First C