On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Paul wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 12:10 -0500, fredex wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 07:55:00AM -0800, Barry Yu wrote: > > > Can any one help to find a book/info for real beginner to learn C for Linux > > > > Can't make any specific recommenations, but I can warn you to > > avoid any books by Herbert Schildt. Mr. Schildt is a skillful > > writer who explains things clearly but sometimes very wrongly. > > Anything by Schildt should be left on the book shelf. Failing that, > they should only ever be used in hand to hand combat or to prop up > the bed. Never open them. They are a danger to shipping and Schildt, > should, IMHO be banned from publishing again. i generally feel the same about anything by ellie quigley. a few years back, i picked up a shell programming book by her and it was so full of egregious errors, i gave up after a couple of chapters. rday
