Wanted: advice on a good C textbook
Jan Parcel
jan at Arezzo.orc.olivetti.com
Wed Jul 26 10:11:18 AEST 1989
Although this is meant to be a supplement (It does not cover the basic
language syntax), _THE _C_ _COMPANION_ by Allen I Holub seems to be a good book
for both beginners and C programmers. It covers many of the same
problems _THE _C _PUZZLE_ _BOOK_ covers except it gives the way to avoid
a given problem rather than examples of the problem. According to the
inside front page, it is published as part of the "Prentiss-Hall Software
Series: Brian Kernighan, Advisor."
It covers stack use and math operations, portability, the symbol table,
and several areas of special interest to PC-DOS users (which I am not).
Every time I lend it, I have trouble getting it back. Then the borrower
goes out and buys it.
Caveat: There is one sentence in the book (the first edition, I think)
where Holub advocates the "one return per function" idea a la Pascal. The
rest of the book is good.
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