bill@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (William J. King) (09/13/89)
The following just arrived at the University bookstore;
Programming in C (revised ed)
Steven C. Kochan
Any opinions on this text as a learning book, as compared to
the c programming language by Kernigan & Ritche
thanx in advance
bill@uhccux.bitnetandrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) (09/13/89)
i just my copy of kochan's book. it is intended for my next summer student to learn C from. it certainly has a most peculiar claim on the back cover. sam morgan actually delivered the book to me asking me "who is the foremost authority on C in the Unix environment?" i was looking at dennis ritchie at the time but decided it had to be a trick question; accordingly i mumbled some names like plum or jaeschke(sic). i was astonished to find the answer(sic) is kochan. still, like his book on security, the C book is large.
pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) (09/15/89)
In article <4833@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> bill@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (William J. King) writes:
=The following just arrived at the University bookstore;
=
= Programming in C (revised ed)
= Steven C. Kochan
=
= Any opinions on this text as a learning book, as compared to
= the c programming language by Kernigan & Ritche
Kochan's book is fine for the student programmer. It has enough explanation
and examples for anyone with a little prior programming experience to learn a
fair amount of C.
K&R is for the programming pros who need only very terse examples and almost
no explanation to understand a new language.
Of course, these are "merely" my opinions. :-)
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