Book Description This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. Need to learn C? Forget old-fashioned C programming books that assume you're a computer hardware expert and teach frustrating, old-fashioned coding styles. If you know any language at all, Zed A.
Pointers and Arrays — Learn C the hard way. Ask Question. Up vote 1 down vote favorite. Hope that helps, and good luck learning C! Make sure you take the time to really understand the equality of arrays and pointers; it will make a lot of stuff a lot harder later on if you don't.
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