Re: Suggested reading for learning C?

[Emiel Kollof <coolvibe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Saturday 11 September 2004 09:11, Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     Well, I think if you are an experienced programmer in other general
>     purpose languages then C will be fairly easy to pickup, but I can tell
>     you that doing a route table is not an easy project (even for me!)
>     so you are going to have your work cut out for you!  C is a very
>     unforgiving language when it comes to mistakes :-)

Amen to that, and especially in the kernel, where a mistake can panic your 
kernel and you need to reboot :)

@jcoombs: Seriously though, the K&R book is a very good book to learn C from 
even if you just start out with programming. Another good book is "C, The 
Complete Reference", by Herbert Schildt, but do look for an errata somewhere, 
since it does contain some mistakes. However, if you find the mistakes 
yourself, you could already say you are getting better at it :)

If you are a programmer, then "ANSI C for programmers" by Robert Love is 
another good reference. It can be found here:

http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/languages/C/teaching_C/

That will get you up to speed with the language quickly. That document 
certainly helped me out when I was still a pascal-guy :)

Cheers,
Emiel
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