On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 06:36 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 03:52:41PM -0500, Aaron Konstam 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/ > > The above is a good reference book but not one for learning to program in C. > > On the contrary -- it's written in clear, simple language without much > distraction, and explains the C language better than any other book I've > seen. Aaron Konstan is correct. The Kernigan-Ritchie manual is fine for reference, but is woefully inadequate for people in the process of learning to program. As a matter of fact it says right in the preface to the first edition that it is NOT an introductory programming manual; the book assumes familiarity with basic programming concepts. I myself have found the book inadequate to the task of teaching beginners. The best book I have found for ground-up C programming is "C How To Program", by H.M. Deitel and P.J. Deitel. I went thru quite a few books before I found this masterpiece. ISBN number is 0-13-226119-7. I like the second edition of this book better than the third. It seems more straightforward and "pure". The cutesy bug icons in the third edition don't do alot for me. > > > -- > Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> > Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> > LX -- °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° "Anybody else wanna negotiate?" -- Maj. Korben Dallas Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
