C Programming

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 08:24, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> > > > > Can any one here point me to "Learning C Programming"
> > > > The book "The C Programming Language", Second Addition by Brian W.
> > > > Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
> > > > http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cbook/
> > > The above is a good reference book but not one for learning to program in C.
> > 
> > On the contrary -- it's written in clear, simple language without much
> > distraction, and explains the C language better than any other book I've
> > seen.
> Look this is silly. The book mentioned above is the definitive reference
> book on C but it is not a book from which to learn to program in C. 
> 
> Try learning to program in Python from the Python Language Reference
> Manual.

C is a pretty small language with a small standard library.  It
actually is possible to learn the basics from the reference as
long as you mostly work with files and stdio.  And of course there
is plenty of example code around if you want to see how things
have been done before.  The messy part comes when you start using
huge libraries for GUI or other complex operations.

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  Les Mikesell
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