I have often found masters (not particularly just in this case) to be too good : they often skip some particular introduction, or use the least amount of words necessary, or some very compact notation, which is good and elegant and certainly shows "mastery" but for an average student like me is basically not of so much use in learning...
-kg On 29 May 2003, Arko Provo Mukherjee wrote: > Hi, > One of my friends have that book and so there is no point in me buying > that. This book is also pretty good. > It doesn't teach you the basics though. > It goes straight to advanced topics. > Regards > Arko > > On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 16:22, Manas Laha wrote: > > Arko Provo Mukherjee wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Very recently, I bought a book called C Unleashed. > > > This book is on ANSI/ISO C and not on C for UNIX. > > > > But C for UNIX _is_ ANSI C. The very reason for standardising C through > > ANSI/ISO is that you then don't have to talk about Windows C or Unix C > > or Linux C. All you need talk about is just plain C! > > > > > So now, even books just on C and not on C for Linux or C for UNIX are > > > coming with a copy of GPL. > > > > That's because GCC is available for Windows, too. Quite likely that many > > people would like to use it. > > > > I can't resist giving a bit of advice: "Learn from the Masters!" If you > > must learn C, study the book by Kernighan and Ritchie. Work out the > > exercises. There's a solution book for them by Clovis and Tondo. > > > > - Manas Laha > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
