C For Programmers

Stephan - Somogyi MacUserLabs at cup.portal.com
Sun Jan 15 09:20:25 AEST 1989


I recently came to the conclusion that it was time for me to learn C
well enough to program in it as well as I do in the other languages
that I know.

The problem with this endeavour was that I do not have a C guru easily
accessible of whom I can ask all sorts of silly questions; thusly, it
was book buying time.

The problem with most 'How To C' books out there is that they're aimed
at people who for the most part haven't programmed seriously ever
before (not to mention that most of the books are about MessDos C
compilers). I wanted a book that just told me about all the relevant
bits of C with the premise that I know how to program and have done so
for a while. I wanted a book that told me how C does all the things
that I already know about (records/strcuts etc).

I think I found it:

C For Programmers
by Leendert Ameraal
Published by Wiley & Sons
$19.95

It's not big, but in the course of an evening's reading it had
answered most (if not all) of the questions that I still had about C
without going down to the level of explaining the difference between
an integer and a function.

Although I have found this marvelous book, I am curious if there are
other books in a similar vein out there. If I get enough answers, I
will post a summary. BTW, this request is not *necessarily* only for C
books. If you know of a really good book about a programming language
that isn't so basic as to be painful, it would probably be worthwhile
to pass the information on.

Stephan

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