Teach yourself C in 21 days

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• spapas82 · Nov 14, 2022 · Recommends

  For me it was the book "Teach yourself C++ in 21 days" by Jesse Liberty. I know it has a funny title however this book allowed me to finally understand Object Oriented Programming.

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• petercooper · Nov 29, 2008 · Recommends

  This is "Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days" published by Sams and, I assume (apologies if wrong) is pirated in this instance. I own this book. It's pretty good. Uncool that piracy might be being supported here though.. Reviews and such here:…

• programminggeek · Mar 29, 2013 · Recommends

  …what we learned the previous year and slowly creeping forward on the material the rest of the year. So, I taught myself the things I cared about at home and in my free time - I would read books like "Teach Yourself C in 21 Days" for fun. At one point I wanted to build my own operating system, so I was teaching myself Assembly... for fun. Obviously I'm a computer nerd, but people are nerdy about all kinds of things. Let the…

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• spapas82 · Nov 4, 2017 · Recommends

  I totally recommend Sam's Teach Yourself C++ in 21 days by Jesse Liberty (I found it here http://101.lv/learn/C++/). It's a great book to learn not only the basics of C++ (which, since it is a rather old book may be not very good for this and you should probably…

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• justin66 · Sep 17, 2014 · Mentions

  I'm fairly sure my ancient copy of Teach Yourself C in 21 Days came with a CD including the book text and Borland C++ 3.1, which is mentioned on github as working. UPC code 0672310694, or: http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Yourself-21-Days-Sams/dp/0672310... You can get…

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• danieldk · Mar 13, 2018 · Mentions

  Awesome. Off-topic: this reminds me of Stardock's Galactic Civilizations: I bought a book “Teach Yourself C in 21 days” and “OS/2 2.0 PM programming” Because I couldn’t afford anything more, everything in the game I created, Galactic Civilizations, could be found in those 2 books. [...] Let me give you an example – in…

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• elmindreda · Apr 11, 2011 · Mentions

  …into the design. Repeatedly. I read tons of other people's code. Large, running projects. Example code won't work. Occasionally, I read books, but the only one I ever read all the way through was /Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days/ back in 1996 (and its title is ridiculous; I'm still learning every day).

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• squeaky-clean · Aug 4, 2022 · Mentions

  I got a free copy of "Sam's Teach Yourself C# in 21 Days" at some Microsoft sponsored career fair thing for students. While not a bad book overall, each chapter was supposed to be "1 day" and I definitely did wonder what planet Sam lived on.

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• micheljansen · Jan 18, 2024 · Mentions

  …into programming, I had no idea where to start. I found a book about C++ at the library and it was one of the only programming languages I had heard about before (little did I know!). I believe it was "Teach yourself C++ in 21 days" or something like that. It came with a copy of DJGPP on CD-ROM. Looking back it's amazing how much easier it is to learn stuff nowadays. The internet is truly a blessing.

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• DavidPiper · Jul 29, 2026 · Mentions

  When I was 11, I pulled a book off the shelf at the nearby library called "Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days". I remember thinking the title was clearly nonsense, but if I could even learn a fraction of it, that would be pretty cool. We didn't have a computer at home yet, so I wrote out the exercises by hand.…

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• stared · Apr 9, 2013 · Critical

  "Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days" http://abstrusegoose.com/249

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