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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Looking for a good C text
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Date: Tue, 11-Nov-86 21:23:43 EST
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	I'm planning on giving a somewhat informal course in C programming
and don't know what text to use.  The only C book I actually own is K&R's
"The C Programming Language", aka The White Book.  While it's probably
required reading, I don't know if it's really what I want.  Can anybody
make any suggestions?

	The intended audience will be Ph.D. scientists (biological, not
computer), and probably some graduate students (again, biologists).  Some
of the people have lots of Fortan experience (I've got one guy struggling
to write fork/exec/rsh code in F77 to run his application in parallel on
several networked machines) others a smattering of Basic, Pascal, and
who-knows-what.  Everybody is already familiar with Unix so I don't need a
book that starts out "This is a computer, this is a terminal, this is a
text editor".  These are also not comp-sci majors, so a bit of hand-holding
when we get to fun stuff like pointers and structures might be in order.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016

"you can't spell deoxyribonucleic without unix!"