A good book on C Programming?
James Keasley
jamesk at homeric.co.uk
Sat Dec 27 21:05:04 UTC 2003
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Gavin Henry <gavin.henry at magicfx.co.uk> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> During my degree, BEng (Hons) Electronics and Communications Engineering, we
> did C programming every year, but I never kept it up, as I had no interest
> and didn't see the point. But now I really want to get back into it as I see
> a point with GNU/Linux. I want to get my old skills back and write something
> or help on some projects etc.
>
> I need some good books. I used to have one called "A Book On C", but sold it,
> and I have been reading various tutorials on the web and the many devoted
> websites.
> Anyone have any recommendations?
For C the best book available is The C programming language,
by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie.
Prentice Hall, Inc., 1988.
ISBN 0-13-110362-8 (paperback), 0-13-110370-9 (hardback).
Avoid anything written by Herbert Schildt, as he is incompetent
the ACCU page has a comprehensive list of the good and bad books on C, C++
and a number of other languages.
http://www.accu.org/bookreviews/public/
> One more question, should I go for C or C++? Which will benefit me more with
> GNU/Linux?
Depends, both are used quite a bit for different things, with the Kernel
being one of the main things written in C.
- --
James jamesk[at]homeric[dot]co[dot]uk
"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer
Poland." Woody Allen
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