About programing, a general question

[Frank Cox]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:44:58 -0700
James McKenzie wrote:

> I learned to program in HP BASIC, COBOL and FORTRAN, but 'c' is the way to
> learn how to program, no 'seat belts'.  I have TWO copies of K&Rs book as
> well as the 'C Puzzle Book'.

For anyone who's new to programming and wants to learn C, I highly (highly!)
recommend this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Primer-Plus-5th-Stephen-Prata/dp/0672326965

It's a series of lessons that starts with very basic programming concepts and
builds from there.

For learning about screen control, I recommend this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Programmers-Guide-NCurses-Dan-Gookin/dp/0470107596/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1292562176&sr=1-1

It's not as "great" as the Prata book above but it's the best ncurses tutorial
that I'm aware of.

I wish I could recommend a good book about GTK, but unfortunately I
haven't found any that are really exceptional.  Perhaps someone else can
recommend something in that regard.


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