Re: help me learn C

Chris Hills wrote:

In article <L5ydndXJ9pxOEsnZnZ2dnUVZ8qCdnZ2d@xxxxxx>,
Richard Heathfield
<invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
abhi said:

hi everybody am new to this group and help me to learn C

*THE* C book is:

The C Programming Language,
2nd Ed. Kernighan & Ritchie. Prentice Hall,
1988. ISBN 0-13-110362-8 (paperback), or 0-13-110370-9 (hardback).


It is over 18 years old now.
The language has moved on a long way since
then.
The current C standard is about twice the size of the 1990 version

Also K&R is a language definition Much like a dictionary.
Yiu do not use
a dictionary to learn to write novels or business reports.

K&R2 is not a definition of the language, but is a tutorial.

"This book is meant to help the reader learn how to program in C.
It contains a tutorial introduction to get new users started as soon
as possible."

The C standard is the definition of the language,
but is not a tutorial.

--
pete
.

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