Re: I've read K&R, what now?

Tor Rustad said:

Richard Heathfield wrote:

[Warning: I did post a replay via google, but that one never appeared]

gillisct@xxxxxxxxx said:

I'd like to say I have a basic control of the C language.

That's good. If you've done most of the exercises, that's actually
amazing.

Is there any reccomended reading upon completion of K&R?

http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/resources.php#RecBooks


OK, I will walk through this list:

<snip>

7. ISO/IEC 9899:1999 ISO.

Comment: Latest draft is available online, likely a far too advanced
text for beginners.

He's hardly a beginner. He's completed almost all the exercises in K&R2!

9. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets, Peter van der Linden

Comment: Excellent & funny book, but not recommended for beginners.

Aye. But again, he's not a beginner. Actually, this one is recommended a
lot, but personally I think it's a bit too eccentric to make a good
followup to K&R2. It is a good book, no question about that, but it's
more of a book that you'd read on a long train journey or, say, to
while away an hour or so at a party - the kitchen is a good place for
this, since you can usually find a spare bottle or two of wine.

11. Algorithms in C, 3rd Ed. Robert Sedgewick

Comment: Excellent book, if OP is interested in algorithms

If he isn't, he sure picked a funny career.

13. Software Solutions in C, ed Dale Schumacher

Comment: N/A

Fabulous book. Well worth the trouble it will take to find a copy.


14. Programs and Data Structures in C, Leendert Ammeraal.

Comment: I haven't this book either, but IMO a book on Data Structures
is the natural step after K&R2.

I do have a copy, and it's first-class.

15. Numerical Recipes in C

Comment: Mainly relevant for physics and chemistry students, not the
place to learn C.

Yeah, I ought to strip that off the list, really.

That completes the recommendations from Richard H., which lack any
references to platform-dependent coding, if OP is using UNIX/Linux, a
book on POSIX (e.g. Stevens APUE http://www.kohala.com/start/) is much
more useful, than many of the above suggestions.

Well, this is a platform-independent group. If I were pushed for
platform-specific recommendations, I would start off by saying APUE to
the POSIX people, PW (Petzold, 5th edition ONLY) to the Win32 people,
and UNP to both groups (yes, even the Win32 people, and even though
porting the code from one to the other isn't entirely effortless).

--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
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