On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:17:01PM -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > Invest in a copy of "C How To Program" by Deitel and Deitel, ISBN > #0-13-226119-7. It is the best choice for beginning programmers. Wow, I could not disagree more. Despite its widespread use as a textbook, I feel that this is one of the poorer choices. My major complaint is that it's full of forward references -- it constantly says "don't worry how this works -- we'll get to that later". And to add insult to that, when you get to later, it often says "as you learned before", refering back in a circle to the part which explained nothing! Plus, where there are explanations, they're often obtuse and needlessly confusing. (This goes *triple* for "C++ How TO Program".) Additionally, since it's a textbook, it comes with the ridiculous price of $80 or more. Perhaps you had a really good teacher in a class which used this as a text? That could really make up for the problems. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
