
Jumping bazookas! This book is scintillating! - I know what you are thinking. ADVANCED C PROGRAMMING? WHO CARES??? Well, not so fast, my jumping refugee! This book holds your hand so that you will not get so lost in the swamps of tricky and deft programming techniques. I mean even FARMERS will find this heavy text to be of value to them. Farmers can use this text as a paperweight to prevent those invoices of corn purchases from flying out their window! I can visualize it now. John Olgivie will say, ",I am KING OF THE WORLD, because my corn purchase invoices lie flat and still on my masculine desk, ready for the programmers of the world to see!",
The Honus Wagner of C Programming Books - Who is Honus Wagner you ask? I think the more important question here is... who is John W. L. Ogilvie. Honus Wagner was a baseball player and his trading card is a highly valued collector s item. This book isn t a starter book for C programming but it is as the title says, a book for advanced C programming. But, I think you might want to know more about the author. John Wilbur Lester Ogilvie was born in rural Canonsburg, Pennsylvania to a father who worked at the local steel mill and whose mother worked as a nurse. Times were tough a couple years later after his birth and the family moved to Malibu, California for a better life. There, John was raised and learned everything he wanted to know about his first love, dance. At the tender age of 18, John wrote and choreographed his first one-man dance show. Unfortunately, it was a flop. His critics, colleagues, and friends scoffed at the performance. Most considered it a pointless waste of time, and most thought that John was not an accomplished dancer or choreographer. This was a turning point in John s life. Reality hit him in the face. Looking back, it was best that he tried before he embarassed himself in front actual dancers. His one-man dance show was called ",Jump!", and it was basically a 20-minute show of John doing jumping jacks, push-ups, and squat thrusts to the music of the ",William Tell Overture",. It was quite an aerobic endeavour but completely lacking in any dance skills. Sally Goldstein, the high school s theater and dance teacher, said ",My four year old could have done that.", After high school, John attended the local community college in computer science and completed post-graduate degrees. He is now an accomplished programmer... but every now and then, you can see him perform ",Jump!",... in his backyard.