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From: manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis)
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Subject: Re: Teaching myself C, and how?
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Date: 3 Jan 90 16:37:24 GMT
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In article <259E48A4.1971@paris.ics.uci.edu> Joachim Patrick Vance
<jvance@ics.uci.edu> writes:

>   What texts would you then reccomend for a person who wants to learn 
>C on his own and has a fair background in programming in some other
>high and/or low level language. thanks.

Kernighan & Ritchie, \i{The C Programming Language}, 2nd ed,
(Prentice-Hall) is the definitive book. It's compact, has lots of good
examples, and uses ANSI C. (The first edition is still in print, for
those who refuse to give up their brain-damaged pre-ANSI compilers).
(I learned C from the precursor to this, Brian Kernighan's old `C
Tutorial'.) 

Kelley & Pohl, \i{A Book on C}, (Benjamin/Cummings) is also good.
Unfortunately, it's pre-ANSI.

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