[olug] C book recs

[Dave Hull]

Quoting Christopher Cashell <topher at zyp.org>:

> Without knowing more about your previous experience, I will note that by
> far the best single C book I know of is "The C Programming Language",
> Second Edition, by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie (Mr. Ritchie is
> the creator of the C language, and Mr. Kernighan was a co-worker of his
> at AT&T Bell Labs who worked with him).  However, it's a somewhat terse
> book, and while it covers the C language very well, it is not an
> "introduction to programming" book.  If you have a solid background in
> programming already, there is no better book, though.  In fact, it is
> not only the best C book I know, it's one of the best programming books,
> period.

I'll second this. I've only dabbled in C now and then, but this is an excellent
book that all programmers should read regardless of the language they use on a
daily basis.

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Dave Hull
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