Dwivedi Ajay kumar forced the electrons to say:
> Forget it !!! Kanitkar's book is heavily dos based, and lives in
> the past... You will have to unlearn a lot to come to mainstream.
IIRC, it is Kanetkar. I haven't completely read the book, but I seem to
remember that he also talks about near and far pointers, so I'd say that the
book is not about C, but about a particular implementation of C, and should be
avoided.
Also, any book that starts code with void main (void) { /* ... */ }
shouldn't be called a C book.
IMO, C is learnt best from the horse's mouth - K&R is the first and
only book anyone beginning with C will require. Other books that I
recommend are Harbison and Steele's C - A Reference Manual, Koening's C -
Traps and Pitfalls and Sedgewick's Algorithms in C.
A link worth bookmarking:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html - The faq for comp.lang.c,
collective wisdom from the newsgroup. The group's archives at deja (despite
the takeover by google) should also be extremely helpful, as well as
reading the group regularly.
Binand
PS: Maybe this thread should move to LIP.
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