On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:08:09PM -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > 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. I think we all agree on this. It's not a book for learning to program. However, it's hands-down the best book for someone who knows some basic programming to learn C. > 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. It's up to 4th edition now. Perhaps it's only getting worse with each edition, which would explain the huge disparity in our perceptions. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
