The first edition of C Programming: A Modern Approach was popular with students and faculty alike because of its clarity and comprehensiveness as well as its trademark Q&A sections. Professor King's spiral approach made it accessible to a broad range of readers, from beginners to more advanced students. With adoptions at over 225 colleges, the first edition was one of the leading C textbooks of the last ten years.

The second edition maintains all the book's popular features and brings it up to date with coverage of the C99 standard. The new edition also adds a significant number of exercises and longer programming projects, and includes extensive revisions and updates.

K. N. King 世界知名的计算机程序设计教育家,现为佐治亚州立大学数学与计算机科学系副教授。他拥有耶鲁大学计算机科学硕士学位,加州大学伯克利分校计算机科学博士学位,曾任教于佐治亚理工学院。除本书外,他还撰写了广受欢迎的著作Modula-2: A Complete Guide 和Java Programming: From the Beginning,并在Dr.Dobb's Journal等权威杂志上发表了许多文章。

吕秀锋,亚洲理工大学（AIT）计算机软件硕士,现为北京理工大学软件学院教师。多年来一直从事“计算机基础（双语）”、“C语言程序设计（双语）”以及“程序设计开发与实践”等本科生课程的教学工作,深受学生欢迎。她还译有《数据结构与算法：C＃语言描述》一书。

黄倩,中国科学院计算技术研究所工学博士,中国计算机学会会员。研究方向包括视频处理、视频监控等,已在知名的国际期刊和国际会议论文集上发表10篇论文。译有《编程珠玑（第2版）》一书,受到读者欢迎。