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Subject: Re: Languages
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Date: 28 Feb 91 10:32:04 GMT
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In article <1991Feb24.222818.13962@isc.rit.edu> awg0971@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>I wanted to start some programming in either assembly or C. Does anyone know of
>a really good book or programming utility or compiler to help me get started on
>any on these?
>                       -King Lerch 

	The best reference book for C is "The C Programming Language" by
Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie. These are the guys who invented 
the language, and the Second Edition is on Ansi C.  This is a reference
though. It does have little tutorials as you go along though so if you
think you're disciplined enough, you could teach yourself C only with
this.  I DEFINITELY suggest you buy this book sooner or later.

	For a while ByteWorks (publishers of Orca/C, the best GS C 
compiler) had a special on where they sold Orca/C and a special "Learn to
Program C" book/'tutorial set' (I don't know what's all included in it)
for about $95.

	That is a VERY good deal since the best price for the Orca/C 
compiler ITSELF is $80 mail order. And if you get all you need to learn C
for $15, it's a GREAT deal.

	And PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE buy this program. If you pirate this
program, then further versions will not be made...  (Orca/C is only the
fourth program I've bought so far but I'm slightly moving away from
the piracy mentality. Not as a moral or legal issue either, simply that 
I try out everything and pay for what's worth paying for)




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