Re: C programming......HOWTO begin...?

[Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Mike Bridge wrote:
> My most-used C reference book is Harbison & Steele's "C: A Reference Manual", 
> but it's not really a good introductory book.

No, but Kernighan and Ritchie, "The 'C' Programming Language", is.
It's the kind of book they don't make anymore -- slim, concise, thorough,
accurate. Most books today remind me of Oprah on her fat days, alas, alak
-- you'd think the authors were being paid by the pound. Or maybe it's
just that editors today don't edit much? 

Of course if this person doesn't know how to program he doesn't need a
book on "C" -- he needs a book on how to program, a book that just happens
to use "C" as its programming language of choice. Alas, I haven't any
suggestions there (most of the good intro books I've seen used Pascal...
the "Learn 'C' in 21 days" ilk is *NOT* what I'd suggest when learning how
to program, I've seen too many kiddos who learned that way and they know
how to hack code, sure, but they don't know how to write good clean
well-organized software). 

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