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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: learning Unix C
Message-ID: <1991May17.132520.27524@mccc.edu>
Date: 17 May 91 13:25:20 GMT
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In article <1991May16.133906.23369@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> pete@othello.dartmouth.edu (Pete Schmitt) writes:
=pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
=
=>In article <7370027@hplsdv7.COS.HP.COM> jimr@hplsdv7.COS.HP.COM (Jim Rogers) writes:
=>=Since you present yourself as a novice programmer I would suggest 
=>="C: Step-by-Step" by The Waite Group (Howard W. Sams & Company publishers).
=
=>It appears to have been superseded by their "New C Primer Plus" which is
=>almost identical and has somewhat fewer errors.
=
=No, the Step-by-Step is more of a text book that the New C primer Plus
=and even comes with a teachers guide.

Pete,
	I don't see how you can say the SxS is more of a text than CP+;
they are almost identical.  Check out the chapter summary, review
questions and programming exercises at the end of each chapter.  CP+ is
almost 100 pages longer, too.  The instructor's manual (not "teachers
[sic] guide") for SxS is little more than an answer book.  No slide
masters, no sample tests, no alternative solutions nor discussions
thereof.  I have it and haven't opened it since I first reviewed it. 
We're switching from SxS to CP+ next fall; I'll let you know if it's
any better.

Pete
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