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From: manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis)
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Subject: Re: Recomendations needed for a book to teach intro C
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Date: 16 Nov 89 16:45:06 GMT
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I'm teaching a 2nd year data structures course; I start the students off
with a book called ``A Workbook on C'', by Sant, published by
Prentice-Hall Canada, followed by K&R, 2nd edition. The Sant book covers
a small subset of C, enough to do basic kinds of things, without
drowning people in all sorts of rules. K&R is most definitely the book
which real C programmers need. 

I even got Prentice-Hall Canada to agree to selling the two books as a
shrink-wrapped package, thus lowering the cost. I don't know whether PH
US markets Sant. 

Now if I could just find a good data structures book which uses C: I'm
currently using van Wyk, which is not bad as a data structures book, but
the code in it uses Classic C. Ugh. 

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