On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:31:19 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:17:50AM -0500, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
>> It seems that you're really beginning with C. You asked, and you got
>> good, specific advice. But it won't be very easy to learn C from the gcc
>> man page. A good C book will be a good investment. If you decide to buy
>> one, let it be "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan & Ritchie - the
>> very authors of C. It is the best book on C. Similarly, if you ever want
>> to learn C++ get Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language". Any
>> university library should have them.
>
> I agree about "The C Programming Language" (make sure you get the second
> edition, whihch covers ANSI C) -- it's better than 99.99% of all the C books
> published since then. But Stroustrup's C++ book is a different story -- it's
> very academic and not easy to read or learn from. My favorite for C++ is
> Robert Lafore's "Object-Oriented Programming in C++", which is very easy to
> read and does an excellent job of teaching concepts. (Way better than any
> textbook I've seen.) The 4th Edition is current, but interestingly, the
> much earlier versions of the book were aimed specifically at Turbo C++
> ("Object-Oriented Programming in Turbo C++", in fact.)
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> Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/>
> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
Stroustrup's book is not your first C++ textbook. But once (you think) you
know C++, it's very good. You see the philosophy of C++, why things are
done this way and not another.
