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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Suggestions on C & C++ books
Message-ID: <2660@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 90 16:23:20 GMT
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amiga@diku.dk (Flemming Andreassen) writes:

>jhc00614@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:


>>     Can anybody suggest good Amiga specific and general C books from which
>>I can learn from scratch.  (I'd prefer them to be strong on the tutorial 
>>aspect).
>>                                     Thanks, Jason

>Well...the best suggestion I can give is Kernigan & Ritchie...

Well K&R is great if you are trying to learn generic C on a mainframe.
But if you are trying to learn C on the Amiga, it sucks eggs.
 
I was trying to learn C (I gave up, lost interest after much frustration)
on the amiga and I got lost trying to figure out all the structures used to
open and control windows, do graphics and sound, use intuition. I learned to
write very basic C programs that just ran in a CLI window and did no
screen addressing, but K&R did not help one bit to learn how to get access 
to the features of my amiga.

Personally, I don't think there ARE any good books out there on how to 
program the Amiga in C for beginners.

I have looked around and found two FAIR books (not good by a long shot).
I can't remember their exact titles right now because it's been about
a year since I gave up in disgust. One is published by Sams books
called something like 'Programming the Amiga in C' and the other is
by Abacus (I think) called 'Amiga C for Beginners' or something close
to that.

What is really needed is a good book (or a series) that takes you from 
absolute beginner up to advanced, using examples in Lattice AND Manx C
(the two most popular Amiga C compilers), specifically written for 
AMIGA's.


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