#HELP ME!I wanna learn C.
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Help Me!
I need to find a book to learn C language. I live in Belgium and I've
got some problems finding good books about beginning in C. I have studied
Assembler, but then I wanted to code in C coz' I couldn't manage to access the
AGA through Assembler, and also because C seems better if you need to write
large programs. So I've already got the ROM Kernal manuals, so I need something
to learn the basics.
Where can I find that kind of book? Is there a way to buy that book
through Compuserve? I looked a bit around, but I didn't find an Amiga Books
Forum… Please HELP ME!!!
The Waite Group published a book many years back called "C Primer Plus" .. it
has been frequently revised, and I think it's still available. They also do a
"C++ Primer Plus", I believe. A popular book which is quite readable but gets
into good detail on the language.
–Jim
Hi,
The standardbook for learning C is 'The C Programming Language, Second Edition,
ANSI C'
The book is written by the two guys who invented C. I have a german translation
of it and maybe there is also a belgium translation.
But be sure that You get the Second Edition because the first ed. from '78 is
K&R C and You need ANSI C.
cya
Jochen Antesberger from Neuburg a.d. Donau – Bavaria/Germany
Titanic – Hindenburg – Challenger – Intel Pentium … what comes NeXT?
I bought a book called
Applications Programming in ANSI C (Second Edition)
by
Richard Johnsonbaugh and Martin Kalin (Depaul University, Chicago)
published by
Macmillan Publishing Company, New York
ISBN 0-02-361131-6
and I believe this to be just the right thing to start out with C. The text on
the back says:
"As users of the highly successful first edition of this book can attest, it is
*the* book for anyone wanting to master the C programming language. Suitable
for self-study or as a text, the book contains:
> extensive worked-out examples
> over 600 self-test exercises (half have solutions in the back of the book)
> more than 170 programming exercises
> entire sections devoted to applications
> list of common programming errors
In addition, the book covers Turbo C, UNIX C, and VAX-11 C and has seven
appendixes for reference (one devoted to UNIX)"
which is about all one could say about the book. It's really a didactically
good introduction into C. Recommended. (As Larry Pournelle would say)
Cheers,
// Christian "ELP" Busse
\X/ near Frankfurt, Germany