aniekan@wasat.usc.edu.UUCP (05/29/87)
Does anyone have a recommendation for a C programming book that
is both easy-to-read and technically sound? If you do, please
send me the authors name and title.
thanks,
Aniekan.
PS: I already know about Kernighan and Pike, I don't think it's
easy-enough-to-read, at least for the "new" programmer.gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (05/30/87)
In article <2402@wasat.usc.edu> aniekan@wasat.usc.edu () writes: >PS: I already know about Kernighan and Pike, I don't think it's > easy-enough-to-read, at least for the "new" programmer. Kernighan & Pike's "The UNIX Programming Environment" is intended to assist in exploiting the UNIX environment, not to learn C. Kernighan & Ritchie's "The C Programming Language" is still the best introductory C textbook in my opinion, although many people prefer Harbison & Steele's "C: A Reference Manual". Plum Hall publishes some good intermediate-level texts worth having; you generally have to get them from Plum Hall, 1 Spruce Av., Cardiff NJ since most large bookstores don't stock them (unlike the other books I mentioned). There are lots of mass-market books purporting to teach C for small computers; most of the ones I've seen are pretty bad.