Can anyone recomend a good intoduction to C...

[Steve Holden]

"Timothy Grant" <tjg at exceptionalminds.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.983829368.26447.python-list at python.org...
> Hear, Hear.
>
> Another vote for K&R. It's ancient, but I still use it when I
> have to do C stuff.
>
> I used it to learn C programming 14 years ago. When I first
> picked it up, I said "I can't learn how to programme from this
> book!" So I bought one of those 1000 page doorstops referenced
> below. I quickly returned to K&R.
>
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 02:42:16PM +0000, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:14:35 -0000, "Simon Brunning"
> > <sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > >... for a Python programmer?
> > >
> > >I'm going to have to bite the bullet and learn a bit of C. I'd at
> > >least like to learn the *right* way to do it.
> >
> > My advice is similar to the one that gets given to prospective Python
> > programmers:  start with the source - K&R (Kernighan & Ritchie). It's
> > kind of similar to the Python tutorial in ways: concise but completely
> > to the point, from people who know why the language was written that
> > way. This is what everyone learned the language from in the early
> > days. Stay away from those 1000-page doorstops with CDroms included.
>
> --
However, if you want to *read* C or C++ code rather than write it, Harbison
and Steele might be a better choice.

regards
 Steve