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From: peter@aucs.uucp (Peter Steele)
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Subject: Re: Introductory C Books
Message-ID: <1989Aug4.112633.25868@aucs.uucp>
Date: 4 Aug 89 11:26:33 GMT
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>   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
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