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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What's a good textbook?
Message-ID: <184@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 88 21:11:33 GMT
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Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
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In article <1429@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
|In article <140@mccc.UUCP>, pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
|> and lacking in both examples and explanations.  A person learning C from
|> K&R would have to spend many hours testing and playing to understand their
|> examples.
|
|Anyone who learns a language without spending hours testing and playing with
|it is a much better programmer than those of us who learned 'C' from K&R.
|Or else they didn't really learn it...
|-- 
|-- Peter da Silva  `-_-'  ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter
|-- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.

Oops!  I sure didn't express myself very well on that one!  I agree
completely that one doesn't really *learn* a language until one has done
much on-line playing with examples.  What I meant was that a text book
can be written so that it includes many good examples, each of which i
sexplained thoroughly.  See, for example, any of the "dissection" books
by Kelley and Pohl.  Having dissected examples gives the non-genius
student direction in his/her exploration on the computer.
.

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