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- From: vtipres@atl.mindspring.com (S Frazier)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Need Advice for Learning
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 03:22:23 GMT
- Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc.
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- Nalla Senthilnathan <nsenthil@ford.com> wrote:
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- >Paul Shipley wrote:
- >>
- >> I need some advice on good sources for learning C/C++/Java,etc. I'm an old
- >> time mainframe COBOL DB2er (etc. etc.) with about a year's worth of exposure
- >> to UNIX (Solaris) and Oracle. I will soon be getting the old "downsizing"
- >> heave-ho so I'm looking to pick up skills in C and/or C++, Java, HTML, etc.
- >> I noticed O'Reilly has a couple of books, Practical Programming in C,
- >> Practical Programming in C++, Java in a Nutshell, etc.
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- >As for c, I would like to suggest "A Book on C, Programming in C"
- >by Al Kelly and Ira Pohl, (Benjamin/Cummings Publishing).
- >I found this to be an excellent learning tool and a wonderful reference source.
-
- >--
- >Nalla Senthilnathan
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- I would like to recommend "C in Plain English" by Brian Overland,
- MIS:Press.
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- Shon Frazier
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