The Waite Group's Master C: PC-Based Teaching System That Simulates a Real Instructor to Teach C Programming

When this gem came out in 1990, it was a Heaven-sent miracle for me. I had bought, and failed to learn from, so many books on the C Language, that I had just about given up on it when MasterC came out as the answer to my prayers!! Some people just learn new things better from a PC than from reading a book, and this CBI (Computer Based Instruction)is still the best one, after all these years, to learn C. The diskettes are on 5.25" Floppys, so what I did was move them over to the 1.44MB ones. Don't forget the Diskette Label information too, and I think there may even be a Hidden File or two. For those of you who run Windows ME, DOS Real Mode is hidden, so you need to install a PATCH that is available for free on the Internet to make it reappear, so NANSI.SYS can run. Just search for "Real Mode Windows ME", and you should be able to find it. I tried it, and it worked for me. Also, if you're running Windows XP, there is a PATCH for XP to get DOS Real Mode to work on it as well, thus allowing NANSI.SYS to run under Windows XP. The best part of MasterC is the section on POINTERS!! If you're like me, understanding Pointers was something I just could not grasp any other way, so don't give up yet. Get MasterC, install it, and put learning C Programming under your belt. There are still many Commercial (and Military) Projects in the Real World where C is their Language of Choice, so don't discount it out by any means.