Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/10/25/11:15:24
C Primer Plus by the Waite Group is a great book for learning C programming.
We are using it in our university certification class. More of a
self-teaching book, it explains things in an easy to read style.
Patrick
> From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
> Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/
> Newsgroups: alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.programming
> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:55:02 GMT
> Subject: Re: Undertaking a programming journey
>
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:54:36 +1100, Jason Stokes
> <jstok AT bluedog DOT apana DOT org DOT au> wrote:
>
>> From the standpoint of an engineer who is used to evaluating
>> *tradeoffs*, might it be arguable that an *on balance* argument
>> might be made, to wit, that a Schildt book that has been written
>> quite elegantly and accessibly, yet contains the occasional error
>
> "Occasional error" my foot. I challenge you to find _one_ source code
> example in a Schildt book that doesn't contain an error.
>
> `void main()' is an error.
>
>> might not be considered preferable to a book which is scrupulously
>> correct, yet written in such Stroustroupish turgidness that all
>> first-years who have had the misfortune to be exposed to it defect
>> to something nice and easy like media studies?
>
> That's why there's the "For Dummies(R)" series of books from IDG.
>
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