There are lots of introductory C books, but this is the first one that
has the no-nonsense, practical approach that has made Nutshell Handbooks
famous. C programming is more than just getting the syntax right. Style
and debugging also play a tremendous part in creating programs that run
well and are easy to maintain. This book not only teaches you the
mechanics of programming, but also describes how to create programs that
are easy to read, debug, and update. Practical rules are stressed. For
example, there are fifteen precedence rules in C (&& comes before