Introductory C Books

[Brian Moore]

I just received Lightspeed C today and guess what! I realized I don't
really know how to program in C. If the net would mind to give me some
advice on which C books are good for a beginner. I know how to program
in Pascal, Fortran, Basic, RPG and (whew) COBOL. I need a book that will
not be so simple that I start skipping parts that I shouldn't , but not so
involved in takes to much knowledge for granted and really gets me lost.
Ideally I'm looking for a book that has alot of example code and one that
might even try to give analogous examples in another language (like Pascal,
for instance) so as to grasp the concept better.
Thanks for your time,

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[Larry Prince]

In article <2...@zip.eecs.umich.edu> zi...@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (Brian Moore) writes:
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[ Request for good C primer, with sample code and analogous examples
in Pascal, etc. ]

I would also be interested in such a book...please e-mail me your
recommendations..."Get this one, it's great" will do, if enough
people concur :-) but "This one is best because..." would be ideal
and much appreciated.

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[Peter Steele]

> I just received Lightspeed C today and guess what! I realized I don't
> really know how to program in C. If the net would mind to give me some
> advice on which C books are good for a beginner. I know how to program
> in Pascal, Fortran, Basic, RPG and (whew) COBOL. I need a book that will
> not be so simple that I start skipping parts that I shouldn't , but not so
> involved in takes to much knowledge for granted and really gets me lost.
> Ideally I'm looking for a book that has alot of example code and one that
> might even try to give analogous examples in another language (like Pascal,
> for instance) so as to grasp the concept better.

You should try "C as a Second Language -- For Native Speakers of Pascal". It
has *lots* of sample programs and solutions to odd numbered exercises. And
as the title implies, it is ideal for programmers who already know Pascal
(the book often draws parallels between contructs in Pascal and equivalent
contructs in C). There was a short though very favourable review in a Byte
magazine a few months back. There are some things I'd like to see done
differently, but no book is perfect. It is published by Addison-Wesley.

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