Re: beginner c questions

Dominic Shields <dom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 2 Nov 2005 18:33:14 -0800, "matt" <mweppler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>I actually have Kernighan and Ritchie, "The C Programming Language"
>>Second Edition. I started with it but I felt it was asking me to write
>>c without teaching it first.
>
> When I started with C about 12 years ago I had a copy of that book and
> found that for me it was
> "Teach yourself C if you are already an expert in C"
>
> I bought "Teach Yourself C" by Herbert Schildt, then "C, The Complete
> Reference" by the same author, worked for me.

Herbert Schildt is a skilled writer of very poor books, full of
dangerous misinformation. If your knowledge of C depends on his
books, it's likely you've picked up some incorrect ideas, particularly
in understanding the difference between portable C and system-specific
features.

Some years ago, he wrote a book consisting of the 1990 ISO C standard
with annotations. See <http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/schildt.html> for
a review. Some of his other books may be marginally better; see
<http://www.accu.org/bookreviews/public/reviews/c/c002173.htm> for a
review of "C, The Complete Reference".

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