-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 January 2007 12:14 PM, Debarshi Ray cobbled together some glyphs to say: Debarshi, >> 1. I and other normal MIDDLE CLASS students did NOT have access to the >> internet. >> >> 2. There were NO competent faculties around to guide us. >> >> 3. We had to use whatever WE HAD. > > Do not just crib about the above points. It was mostly the same with me > too. [snip]
There is no point trying to convince somebody who is already convinced the other way. I have tried reading YPK's LUC once, it looks student friendly superficially, what I couldn't accept was that the author implicitly taught the students that Turbo C is the ``standard C'', and anything else is a platform specific implementation. For example, all die hard YPK fans tell me that ``C in Linux[sic] is so different ... geez! it doesn't even have conio.h!!''. LUC may be good for beginners, but it is a awful trade-off between teaching the right and wrong, albeit in a _friendly_ manner. One more thing that pissed me off was the absolutely horrible typesetting ... it seems the book is written in M$ Weird and is a pain for the eyes. K&R is undoubtedly one the best programming books ever written ... it's such a small book but it packs a lot of punch in less pages. Another point to be noted is that LUC costs 2x than K&R. So not only is it a great book, it's very affordable too (costs < USD 2 in India). Regards, BG - -- Baishampayan Ghose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ubuntu -- Linux for Human Beings http://www.ubuntu.com/ 1024D/86361B74 BB2C E244 15AD 05C5 523A 90E7 4249 3494 8636 1B74 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFtHyRQkk0lIY2G3QRAuR0AKCP96PgkE/K92WYsvm0mdEzcS7tGACfdfai nk8ft6V35YSQQ/NyomFr3w4= =K3vs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
