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# Modern C mastery Professional-grade coding Embedded systems focus 21st Century C

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## Summary

> 📘 Code smarter, not harder — your gateway to professional C mastery!

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## Key Features

- • **Seamless Environment Setup:** Step-by-step instructions to get you coding fast
- • **Master Modern C with Confidence:** Up-to-date techniques for today's coding challenges
- • **Write Cleaner, Maintainable Code:** Elevate your coding style and professionalism
- • **Optimize Embedded Systems Development:** Practical guidance for hardware-level programming
- • **Bridge High-Level Languages & Hardware:** Unlock middleware skills for versatile programming

## Overview

21st Century C, 2nd edition by Ben Klemens, is a comprehensive guide designed for professionals and serious learners aiming to master modern C programming. It emphasizes practical environment setup, clean coding practices, and embedded systems development, making it an essential resource for bridging hardware and high-level languages. Highly rated with 4.4 stars from over 100 reviews, this book is your key to coding like a pro in today's tech landscape.

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Review: Learn to code in up-to-date C and be treated like a professional - This is a preliminary review to ameliorate the existing, totally undeserved, rating on desertcart.co.uk for the kindle version. I wanted a book to support learning modern C, as most of the other books are either dated or lightweight (I am no dummy; I am an IT - non coding - professional). One of the early pains for me is knowing the most effective way to set up the environment. This book certainly helps with that. My motivation for learning C is primary to code embedded systems. A side-benefit is that C can be used almost anywhere to underpin other high level languages. C provides the necessary middleware between the operating system/hardware and these high level languages. For instance, I use F#. When I want to accesses the hardware on a Raspberry Pi, say using Wiring Pi, I have to interface with C bindings.
Review: Good if you already know C - it helps you write cleaner and more maintainable code. Recommended. - Good if you already know C - it helps you write cleaner and more maintainable code. Recommended.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | 1491903899 |
| Best Sellers Rank | 1,064,686 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 1,455 in Introduction to Programming 2,589 in Software Design & Development 2,607 in Computing & Internet for Professionals |
| Customer reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (104) |
| Dimensions  | 17.78 x 2.34 x 23.34 cm |
| Edition  | 2nd ed. |
| ISBN-10  | 9781491903896 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1491903896 |
| Item weight  | 653 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 406 pages |
| Publication date  | 10 Oct. 2014 |
| Publisher  | O′Reilly |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Learn to code in up-to-date C and be treated like a professional
*by J***Y on 1 June 2017*

This is a preliminary review to ameliorate the existing, totally undeserved, rating on amazon.co.uk for the kindle version. I wanted a book to support learning modern C, as most of the other books are either dated or lightweight (I am no dummy; I am an IT - non coding - professional). One of the early pains for me is knowing the most effective way to set up the environment. This book certainly helps with that. My motivation for learning C is primary to code embedded systems. A side-benefit is that C can be used almost anywhere to underpin other high level languages. C provides the necessary middleware between the operating system/hardware and these high level languages. For instance, I use F#. When I want to accesses the hardware on a Raspberry Pi, say using Wiring Pi, I have to interface with C bindings.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good if you already know C - it helps you write cleaner and more maintainable code. Recommended.
*by M***R on 30 September 2017*

Good if you already know C - it helps you write cleaner and more maintainable code. Recommended.

### ⭐⭐ I am requesting a refund.
*by D***R on 11 September 2017*

I do not agree with the 1 star review - C is not dead. I do not agree with the 5-star reviews - this is not a good book. I learnt C 25 years ago, and am still using ANSI C. I thought this book would teach me tricks from the 99 or 2011 standards, but is to mainly an overview of vaguely useful tools (git / editors / makefiles). There is not even a mention for Variable Length Arrays in the index. The coverage of OpenMP is less than 2 pages - which is nowhere near enough to even explain the difference between shared and private variables - never mind the problems with synchronisation. Overall, a very misleading title.

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