On Saturday 29 July 2006 12:19, fredex wrote: >On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 10:54:09AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 09:24:42AM -0500, Erich Carlson wrote: >> > On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 14:00 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: >> > > Can any one here point me to "Learning C Programming" >> > >> > The book "The C Programming Language", Second Addition by Brian W. >> > Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie >> > http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cbook/ >> >> Yeah. Not only is it the original (well, make sure you get the ANSI C >> edition, because you don't really want *too* original), it's very well >> written and easy to learn from. There's really no need for another >> book. >> >> Unless you actually want to learn C++. In some ways, learning C first >> will put you at a disadvantage there, because it's easy to develop good >> C habits which are bad C++ coding. In that case, I highly, highly >> recommendd "Object-Oriented Programming in C++" by Robert Lafore >> (currently, in its 4th edition: >> <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0672323087?v=glance>). >> >> It's very well organized, and teaches things clearly. > >But WHATEVER you buy, avoid any book by Herbert Schildt, like the plague. >Mr. Schildt is an excellent writer. He explains things with great > clarity. Unfortunately too often his lucid explanations are WRONG or are > teaching BAD PRACTICE. Amen, I too wasted some money on his stuff. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
