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- From: hchen@shiva (Haiibo Chen)
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- Subject: Re: Good introductory books on C
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.230117.15364@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 23:01:17 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.193115.4513@puma.ATL.GE.COM> <1992Aug1.210951.1754@amhux2.amherst.edu> <1992Aug7.130006.19419@icf.hrb.com>
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- In article <1992Aug7.130006.19419@icf.hrb.com> els@icf.hrb.com (Eric L. Schott) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug1.210951.1754@amhux2.amherst.edu>, twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
- >> In article <1992Jul30.193115.4513@puma.ATL.GE.COM> rsnyder@atl.ge.com (Bob Snyder) writes:
- >>
- >>>I'm looking for a good introductory book on learning C. I've dabbled a bit
- >>>with it, and own K&R, but that really isn't a good tutorial text. :-)
- >>
- >> K&R is not an easy first text, but you will hardly find a more solid
- >> introduction to the language.
- >
- >I started years ago with K&R. However, when I started a project using
- >ANSI C, I spent many days searching for a good C book. I found
- >_C A Software Engineering Approach_ by Peter Darnell and Philip
- >Margolis to be an excellent book. I highly recommend this book.
- >--
- >
- >Eric L. Schott, HRB Systems, Inc. 814/238-4311 els@icf.hrb.com
- > "As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible
- > but more mysterious." Albert Schweitzer, "Paris Notes"
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- If one would like to teach C at college or freshmen level, The best Text
- I could have found is
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- Gary Bronson & S. Menconi
- << A First Book of C: Fundamentals of C programming>>
- Second edition
- West Publisher
-
- and << Solution Manual with the Book>>
- By Bronson , Meconi & G. A. Falk ( AT & T)
-
- West Publish had one popular PASCAL text by NANCY ( to 4 th edition)
-
- This is C book parallel to its PASCAL.
- Excellent text and self taught book!
-
- Tip: DO NOT buy book blindly when it is first edition. Unless you know.
- However, second edition means this may have some merit.
-