OT: Programming in C
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at clemson.edu
Mon Apr 7 18:29:49 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 12:26 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, max bianco wrote:
>
> > I want to learn C and I know there are quite a few programmers on this
> > list. I am looking for a couple of good books on learning C. I am not
> > exactly a beginner but I am no expert and i would like to start going
> > over everything from scratch. So if I could get some referrals to a
> > couple of books I would greatly appreciate it. I am looking for a good
> > thorough beginners guide to C and also something for the intermediate
> > programmer as I expect to get through the former in fairly short
> > order. I ultimately will be directing my efforts at kernel hacking.
>
> get "harbison & steele" and start reading the kernel source.
>
Wow, that's really tossing him in at the deep end of the pool!
H&S is a critical reference that belongs on every C programmer's shelf,
but it's no help at all for learning programming. There's lots of good
stuff in kernel code, but a lot of it is highly specific to its task.
I don't have a good beginner's reference, unfortunately. For an
intermediate text, Kernighan and Ritchie is my favorite. I also like
Plauger's standard C library book for good examples of library-type
code.
> rday
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Matthew Saltzman
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