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- From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
- Subject: Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.103926.25898@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
- Summary: K&R, Stroustrup _not_ all that bad ...
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- References: <1992Dec23.220530.15347@netcom.com> <1992Dec24.172333.7339@grebyn.com> <1993Jan2.163028.8829@netcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 10:39:26 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan2.163028.8829@netcom.com>, jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec24.172333.7339@grebyn.com> malak@grebyn.com (Michael Malak) writes:
-
- > >You should always start out with the official books:
- > >
- > >For C, it is _The_C_Programming_Langauge_ 2nd ed. by Kernighan & Ritchie
- > >For C++, it is _The_C++_Programming_Language 2nd ed. by Stroustrup
- >
- > No no no no no no no no no no no no. These books are _unreadible_ to a
- > beginner. However, they can be quite valuable as a reference (whenever
- > you get around to learning how to read them...)
-
- Not in my experience. K&R-I and -II are among the most readable books
- I know on programming languages. I learned C from Brian Kernighan's
- tutorial, well before K&R was published, and I had only a couple years
- of experience in FORTRAN and BASIC at the time. The K&R books are
- improvements over that tutorial.
-
- The trick is not to try to take them all at once. Take each chapter by
- itself and work with the stuff in it for a couple of days before you go
- on to the next.
-
- As far as C++ is concerned: if you know C, Stroustrup-II is the best book
- out right now; if not, Lippman-II may be better for you. (I haven't taken
- a thorough look at Lippman-II; this comment is based on my reading of
- Lippman-I).
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
-
- mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
-