Re: C Prog. book recommendation

From: Richard Heathfield (dontmail_at_address.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 11/30/03 

Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 07:23:15 +0000 (UTC)

Michael J. Fromberger wrote:

> In article <65660127.0311291751.3629938@posting.google.com>,
> tekwiz@bellsouth.net (TekWiz) wrote:
>
>> i'm looking for a good book to learn C from the ground up. I
>> currently know know nothing about any lanuguage witha compiler. i
>> learn best by example and am fluent in PHP, Perl, HTML, and XHTML.
>>
>> I also need a recommendation for some good programming reference
>> books. I've been told that the O'Reilly Safari books are good, but
>> i'd rather hear than from the people in the field.
>>
>> thanks for the help.
>>
>
> For C, it is virtually impossible to do better than:
>
> Brian W. Kernighan & Dennis M. Ritchie, _The C Programming Language_,
> 2nd Ed. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1988 ISBN 0-13-110362-8 (paperback)

Michael is indeed correct. I offer a couple of other suggestions which,
IMHO, are inferior to Michael's suggestion, but are considered sensible
alternatives:

C Programming: A Modern Approach, K.N.King, W.W.Norton & Company, 1996. ISBN
0-393-96945-2
C: How to Program, 2nd Ed. Deitel, H.M. & Deitel, P.J. Prentice Hall, 1994.
ISBN: 0-13-226119-7

As for programming reference books, I think you'd struggle to beat Knuth's
"The Art of Computer Programming" in its awesome three-volume (at present)
glory. Other reference books I have found extraordinarily helpful are
"Programming Windows", 5th edition, by Charles Petzold; "Advanced
Programming in the Unix Environment", W Richard Stevens; and "Unix Network
Programming" (both volumes), also by WRS. 

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