Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!princeton!mccc!pjh
From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What's a good textbook?
Message-ID: <128@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 88 01:52:16 GMT
References: <523@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Organization: Mercer College, Trenton, NJ
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In article <523@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>I've been asked to recommend a textbook for someone with a math
>background who wants to learn C.  I know about Kernighan & Ritchie,
>and have Harbison & Steele.  Are there any other particularly good
>textbooks, especially ones which don't assume quite as much of a
>programming background?

YES!  If the person is a pretty good programmer already, then he/she
might try Kelley and Pohl's "A Book on C".  The same authors have a
slightly more elementary boof entitled "C By Dissection".

The Waite Group has one called "C Primer Plus" for the really new
programmer.  Steven Kochan's book is a good text for an intermediate
programmer.

Personally, I take my hat off to anyone who learned his/her C from K&R.
It just has too few examples and is too terse for me.

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