Re: Where to start
From: Tim Rentsch (txr_at_alumnus.caltech.edu)
Date: 10/22/04
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Date: 22 Oct 2004 10:01:11 -0700
Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:
> I'd recommend starting with K&R, regardless of the previous experience
> or lack of it and switching to another book *only* if the reader finds
> the text too difficult to understand (after making a *honest* effort to
> understand it).
I second this recommendation. Normally I wouldn't followup just
to second a recommendation but the quality of K&R as a tutorial
makes it seem worth an exception.
One thing I would add: K&R glosses over some of the difficulties in
C, often making people think they understand the language better than
they do. So even though K&R is a good place to start, it should be
supplemented by _something_; what the something should be depends a
lot on who is doing the reading.
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