ziff@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (Brian Moore) (08/04/89)
I just received Lightspeed C today and guess what! I realized I don't
really know how to program in C. If the net would mind to give me some
advice on which C books are good for a beginner. I know how to program
in Pascal, Fortran, Basic, RPG and (whew) COBOL. I need a book that will
not be so simple that I start skipping parts that I shouldn't , but not so
involved in takes to much knowledge for granted and really gets me lost.
Ideally I'm looking for a book that has alot of example code and one that
might even try to give analogous examples in another language (like Pascal,
for instance) so as to grasp the concept better.
Thanks for your time,
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***************************************************************************prince@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Larry Prince) (08/04/89)
In article <211@zip.eecs.umich.edu> ziff@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (Brian Moore) writes: > [ Request for good C primer, with sample code and analogous examples in Pascal, etc. ] I would also be interested in such a book...please e-mail me your recommendations..."Get this one, it's great" will do, if enough people concur :-) but "This one is best because..." would be ideal and much appreciated. UCLA Computer Science Department -- Larry 3413 Boelter Hall Los Angeles 90024 (213) 825-2145 Prince UUCP: {uunet,rutgers,ucbvax}!cs.ucla.edu!prince Internet: prince@CS.UCLA.EDU
peter@aucs.uucp (Peter Steele) (08/04/89)
> I just received Lightspeed C today and guess what! I realized I don't > really know how to program in C. If the net would mind to give me some > advice on which C books are good for a beginner. I know how to program > in Pascal, Fortran, Basic, RPG and (whew) COBOL. I need a book that will > not be so simple that I start skipping parts that I shouldn't , but not so > involved in takes to much knowledge for granted and really gets me lost. > Ideally I'm looking for a book that has alot of example code and one that > might even try to give analogous examples in another language (like Pascal, > for instance) so as to grasp the concept better. You should try "C as a Second Language -- For Native Speakers of Pascal". It has *lots* of sample programs and solutions to odd numbered exercises. And as the title implies, it is ideal for programmers who already know Pascal (the book often draws parallels between contructs in Pascal and equivalent contructs in C). There was a short though very favourable review in a Byte magazine a few months back. There are some things I'd like to see done differently, but no book is perfect. It is published by Addison-Wesley. -- Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121 UUCP: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}!dalcs!aucs!Peter BITNET: Peter@Acadia Internet: Peter%Acadia.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (08/05/89)
[C primers] First and foremost, you will need K&R. That is actually The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie. This is the definition of the language. Both first edition and second edition are being sold. The second edition is a bit better written, and includes a lot of new stuff, but the first edition is cheaper and acceptable. The LSC manual will tell you everything not in the first edition. The next book is a new book. It is called Macintosh Programming Primer by Chernicoff. This books include routines written in LSC and is extremely well written. I for one am very impressed with it. It will give you four or five pages of source code, then spend ten pages explaining every routine. You can go through the source code and look up anything you do not understand. It does not teach you C so much as it teaches you how to implement standard C that works on every machine onto the Mac's F***ing Pascal calling convention. Michael Rutman Softmed
Greg_Mark_Finnegan@cup.portal.com (08/08/89)
If you're coming from Pascal, a real good book is: _C as a Second Language For Native Speakers of Pascal_ by Tomasz Muldner and Peter W. Steele. (It got me over the C hump :-) Greg.