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Availability
editAre his books available abroad?
"test the depth" makes no sense
editSection Criticism: "test the depth of the Turbo C programming environment.". What does that mean? Why would students test the depth of a programming environment? I don't think it makes sense. --Mortense (talk) 18:26, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Incorrect ISBN number
editIn Bibliography (of selected books): "ASP.NET Web Services (ISBN 978-1934015254)". The ISBN number, 978-1934015254, is incorrect. It is for "Let Us C" (see, for example, http://www.amazon.com/Let-Us-Eighth-Computer-Science/dp/1934015253). --Mortense (talk) 19:05, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Controversy
editIt's worth knowing that Kanetkar's book Let Us C (well known among Indian programming students) is notorious for, well, not being a good book! It is based around the ancient and obsolete Turbo C environment, which hasn't been correct standard C for decades, and the book also encourages the use of various hacky tricks that are undefined by the C specification, and misleadingly states that these have a deterministic outcome when in fact they do not (and needless to say should never be used in real-world code). Many Internet discussion forums such as StackOverflow talk about these problems. Equinox ◑ 11:32, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
- Back with a couple of links. Quora is a hellhole but (being full of both Indians and programmers) it has an interesting page on this: [1]. Also check out the mention of Let Us C here: [2]. Equinox ◑ 06:20, 20 May 2023 (UTC)