Can anyone recomend a good intoduction to C...

[Timothy Grant]

Hear, Hear.

Another vote for K&R. It's ancient, but I still use it when I
have to do C stuff.

I used it to learn C programming 14 years ago. When I first
picked it up, I said "I can't learn how to programme from this
book!" So I bought one of those 1000 page doorstops referenced
below. I quickly returned to K&R.

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 02:42:16PM +0000, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:14:35 -0000, "Simon Brunning"
> <sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >... for a Python programmer?
> >
> >I'm going to have to bite the bullet and learn a bit of C. I'd at
> >least like to learn the *right* way to do it.
> 
> My advice is similar to the one that gets given to prospective Python
> programmers:  start with the source - K&R (Kernighan & Ritchie). It's
> kind of similar to the Python tutorial in ways: concise but completely
> to the point, from people who know why the language was written that
> way. This is what everyone learned the language from in the early
> days. Stay away from those 1000-page doorstops with CDroms included.

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Stand Fast,
    tjg.

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