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 世界知名的計算機程序設計教育傢，現為佐治亞州立大學數學與計算機科學係副教授。他擁有耶魯大學計算機科學碩士學位，加州大學伯剋利分校計算機科學博士學位，曾任教於佐治亞理工學院。除本書外，他還撰寫瞭廣受歡迎的著作Modula-2: A Complete Guide 和Java Programming: From the Beginning，並在Dr.Dobb's Journal等權威雜誌上發錶瞭許多文章。

呂秀鋒，亞洲理工大學（AIT）計算機軟件碩士，現為北京理工大學軟件學院教師。多年來一直從事“計算機基礎（雙語）”、“C語言程序設計（雙語）”以及“程序設計開發與實踐”等本科生課程的教學工作，深受學生歡迎。她還譯有《數據結構與算法：C＃語言描述》一書。

黃倩，中國科學院計算技術研究所工學博士，中國計算機學會會員。研究方嚮包括視頻處理、視頻監控等，已在知名的國際期刊和國際會議論文集上發錶10篇論文。譯有《編程珠璣（第2版）》一書，受到讀者歡迎。