Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C

by Axel Schreiner

A do-it-yourself guide to object-oriented programming using ANSI-C with detailed examples and a preprocessor (written in awk) to simplify coding.

223 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2011

Reviews

[Tasos P. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was looking forward to this book, hoping that it would demonstrate elegant conventions that achieve object orientation paradigms in c, such as the super elegant object-oriented (function pointer based) code one encounters in the source code of projects like Xlib. Instead, I felt I found a book that effectively tried to rediscover c++, re-implementing all the concepts from scratch in c, even including a preprocessor to help write classes with terser syntax. As another commenter said here, it starts off promising, but I found myself skipping furiously by the end, with not much to hold my interest. The whole book simply reads like someone's very particular "implementation" of tools to simulate classes. It was an ok read but nothing special, and definitely not what I hoped for.

[Stirling Westrup · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of good ideas at first, but the more I read the less I agreed with. By the end I was finding nothing I cared about.