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[C primers]

First and foremost, you will need K&R.  That is actually The C Programming
Language by Kernighan and Ritchie.  This is the definition of the language.
Both first edition and second edition are being sold.  The second edition
is a bit better written, and includes a lot of new stuff, but the first edition
is cheaper and acceptable.  The LSC manual will tell you everything not in 
the first edition.

The next book is a new book.  It is called Macintosh Programming Primer by 
Chernicoff.  This books include routines written in LSC and is extremely well 
written.  I for one am very impressed with it.  It will give you four or five 
pages of source code, then spend ten pages explaining every routine.  You
can go through the source code and look up anything you do not understand.  It
does not teach you C so much as it teaches you how to implement standard C 
that works on every machine onto the Mac's F***ing Pascal calling convention.

Michael Rutman
Softmed