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From: coxr@ecn.purdue.edu (Richard L Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: C book
Message-ID: <1990Sep8.010336.5846@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 8 Sep 90 01:03:36 GMT
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In article <1990Sep06.230149.5144@ddsw1.MCS.COM> zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) writes:
>I just got my Orca/C v1.1 update and included was an ad for _Learn to Program
>in C_ by Mike Westerfield.  Does anyone know if this is good? I would like
>to learn how to program (just in general, and with C as a medium) and would
>this be a good book for that?

The ONLY book for Programming in C is "The C Programming Language" by
Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M Ritchie.  These fellow are the people
who wrote the language.  The examples in the book exhibit good
programming style and is a good book for learning EXCELLENT as a reference.   
It is the only book used at Purdue by the Electrical Engineering
department to teach the C course that I have seen.  Around here it is
refered to as the C bible.


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