Provides solutions to all exercises in Kernighan & Ritchie's new ANSI C book. Ideal for use with K&R in any course on C. Careful study of this answer book will help understand ANSI C and enhance programming skills. Tondo & Gimpel describe each solution and completely format programs to show the logical flow.

Maybe you need the extra explanations; I know I did at times, if only to clarify or validate my thought processes. If you have a professor using "The C Progamming Language" as the primary textbook, you won't need this book. However, if you're going it alone, it's a good complement to self-study because it will engage you in some rational dialogue about the solution methodology.

That's the final star; if the book discussed rationale a bit more, it would merit the fifth star.


good, if derivative   December 22, 1999
 16 out of 59 found this review helpful

While Kernighan and Ritchie scored underground success with "The A answer book", followed by the solid "B answers", Their third effort finds the duo treading water, creatively. The authors borrow much from their earlier works and there is little here to suprise veteran readers of the series. Even bringing in new talents Clovis L. Tondo and Scott E. Gimpel fails breathe life into this flat treatise, which leaves the reader only to wonder what he can expect of their next endeavor. Still, the facts are for the most part accurate and this makes it worthy of a place on the shelf of the beginning student of C.


What a rip-off! .   September 24, 1999
 14 out of 39 found this review helpful

It is absurd that the authors and/or publishers of this book have such little regard for its readers as to hold them hostage. They should make it explicitly clear that the solutions to the problems will cost another $.