On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:09:03PM -0400, John Gluck wrote: > > For C, you want "The C Programming Language" by Brian Kernighan and > > Dennis Ritchie. Ever heard people refer to "the K&R"? They're > > talking about that book. > > That is not a learning book. It's a great language reference unless you get > the 1st revision in which case it's a great historical document.
I think it is a good learning book, for some people anyway. It was for me. That's just my experience though; it may not be so for everybody. In any case, I am firmly convinced that every C programmer should have a copy of it. (I'm sure Addison-Wesley would be very happy to hear me say that .. :) ) Admittedly, I was already a trained programmer when I got the book. Someone with no training in structured programming should get a book that covers data structures etc. > It probably took about twice as long as it should have compared to a good > textbook style . naah. I remember the experience of learning C with that book as remarkably easy. Again, just my own experience. > > programming under Unix. It was written by (I think) Michael Johnson > > and Matt Welch, but my copy is at home right now so I don't remember Actually written by Michael Johnson and Erik Troan. > There are many good books about things like that. The choice is predicated on > existing knowledge and experiance compaerd to where you want to go. yep. As always. > There is a book called Programmer's guide to Sound ISBN 0-201-41972-6 > It give some pretty good background and has some C++ classes as examples Hmm .. that sounds interesting, I might give that a look myself. I think he was more interested in MIDI though. -- Michael Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---- Pray for: - the souls of those who have lost, and will lose, their lives, as a result of the US terrorist attacks; - the souls of those responsible, that they may see the destruction they have wrought, and repent, before it is too late; - the United States, that its people will return to God for strength, and forgive; for the attackers "know not what they do"; - the agents of justice on Earth, that they may speedily do God's will, whatever that may be. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
