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From: ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halberstadt)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: advice on a good C textbook
Summary: A short list of good books
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Date: 16 Jul 89 18:28:54 GMT
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Books I like (besides K&R):
-- Andrew Koenig, "C Traps and Pit Falls", Addison-Wesley, Reading,
Massachusetts (1989). ESSENTIAL!
-- Stephen Kochan, "Programming in ANSI C", Hayden Books, Indianapolis,
Indiana (1988).
-- A Book on C (I can't remember the author/publisher...).

UNIX books:
-- Brian Kernigan and Rob Pike "The UNIX Programming Environment",
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (1984).
-- Marc Rochkind, "Advanced UNIX Programming", Prentice-Hall, Engelwood
Cliffs, New Jersey, (1985).


I never liked the puzzle book. I more or less agree with the person who wrote
(but I wouldn't have used such strong lanugage):
>Ick.  I highly disrecommend this book.  It teaches you to debug code that
>only a psychopath would write, and warps you into looking for things that
>are almost never there.  Stay as far away from such code as possible!

In response to:
>> What I need is a good intro book to C
>> programming...

<<>>I *highly* recommend _The C Puzzle Book_.

-- Ari Halberstadt


Ari Halberstadt: ari@dartmouth.edu