RE: Good C books

["Burke, Jason" <JBurke@lrs.com>]

I would like to add a couple books to this list for the beginners
out there. 

Absolute Beginners Guide to C 
by: Greg M. Perry
ISBN: 0672305100
(4.5 stars out of 5 with 49 reviews on Amazon)
(He also wrote Absolute Beginners Guide to Programming)

Mr. Perry does a wonderful job of laying the groundwork for 
starting programmers. I've read both of his books, and so far
they have been the most concise, and understandable texts
for the novice programmer that I have ever picked up.

If you're still interested in C after this book then I would 
recommend getting this book:

The C Programming Language
By: Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
ISBN: 0131103628

This is probably the most compact and through text on the
C language (of course that's because it's written by the 
designers of C). The really valuable part of this book is that
it gives you a glimpse into the thinking behind C and how it 
works under Unix. This is not a beginners book per se, but
it contains a great number of useful gems for C programmers
of any level. I find myself coming back to this one again 
and again (it also has a nice breakdown of what's supposed 
to be in the standard C library).

And/or this one from O'Reilly:

Practical C Programming
By: Steve Oualline
ISBN: 1-56592-306-5
(Steve Oualline also has an excellent C++ book)

I've only read parts of this book, but this was the book that my
instructor used when I had my first C class in 93. It's a good book
for the more technically minded people, and it has some great 
tips on writing maintainable and readable code.

Aside from these three books, the Internet is going to be the best
source of information. Here's a couple of great links for C and Linux
programming:

Linux Programming: www.linuxprogramming.com - Great site!

The Linux Programmers Guide: www.luci.org/LDP - Some useful
info, mainly an alphabetical list of system calls in appendix A.

Linux Central: www.linuxcentral.com - Even though this is a online
retailer they have the man pages online. Look on the left side of
the front page towards the bottom for the link.

DeveloperWorks from IBM: www.ibm.com/developer/linux - Great
info!

Linux Dev.net: www.linuxdev.net - Another interesting programming
portal. Worth a look every now and then.

Programmers Heaven: www.programmersheaven.com - Great site
for all sorts of topics.

Well, that about covers it. Enjoy.

Jason


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jordan Bettis [SMTP:jordanb@m-net.arbornet.org]
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 12, 2000 1:12 AM
> To:	luci-discuss@luci.org
> Subject:	Good C books
> 
> 
> I've spoken with a number of people at recent meetings about C programming
> books I've liked. Here is the important information for ordering them:
> 
> Expert C Programming Deep C Secrets
> Peter Van Der Linden
> Sunsoft Press
> Prentice Hall title
> ISBN 0-13-177429-8
> 
> Beginning Linux Programming
> Richard Stones and Neil Matthew
> Wronx Press
> ISBN 1-861002-97-1
> 
> These are both available at fatbrain.com. 
> 
> A side note, _Beginning..._ has a fairly good chapter on Perl. It was
> reviewed on slashdot althoug I am too lazy to look up a URL. _Expert..._
> was written in 1994, so it was a little too early for slashdot. 
> 
> The information in it is not dated as C has changed very little in the
> elapsed time (although the author's refrenced to GNU are amusing). The
> only bad thing I can say about it is that the author is a Sun programmmer
> and is a bit sun centrec. _Beginning..._ is lengthy (but terse) weighing
> in at 900+ pages and the authors most assurdly could use some humor in
> their lives so I would not attempt a reading without plenty of Java(tm). 
> 
> All in all, both are excellent books and have helped me greatly. One last
> note, nether are primers to C, they both assume (if even a little)  prior
> knowledge of the language. 
> 
> 
> Jordan Bettis.
> Who feels Mr. Sandman pulling at his little lids.
> 
> 
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