C Programming

[Lyvim Xaphir]

On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 18:19 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 3:52 PM -0500 7/29/06, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 09:24 -0500, Erich Carlson wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 14:00 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> >> > Hi
> >> >
> >> > 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.
> 
> Gee, some of us learned C from it.  (Some of us even consider it the best
> book for learning C.)  It also has the advantage of being much shorter than
> most of the alternatives, as well as containing something very like the C
> standard for reference.
> 
> It is not the best book for learning programming, but C would be a dreadful
> choice for one's first programming language.

Not necessarily.  That is exactly the target course of the book I
recommended elsewhere in this thread tackles that very topic and
abolishes that old wives tale.

In fact it's been shown that students in introductory Pascal courses
have no advantages over the students in the introductory C courses, with
the distinction that the C students have greater motivation on the
course material due to the fact that they are learning a production
language.


> ____________________________________________________________________
> TonyN.:'                       <mailto:tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>
>       '                              <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
> 

LX
-- 
°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
When the ax entered the forest, the trees said,
"The handle is one of us!"   -- Turkish proverb
Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/
°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°