From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 15 09:48:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA13002 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 09:48:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lab.cba.ualr.edu (lab.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA12987 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 09:48:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@lab.cba.ualr.edu) Received: from lab.cba.ualr.edu (joe@lab.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.221]) by lab.cba.ualr.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA24572 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:52:18 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:52:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Learning C on FreeBSD... In-Reply-To: <199809151513.IAA04988@pau-amma.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, David Wolfskill wrote: > >From: nvp@mediaone.net > >Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 19:27:39 -0500 (EST) > > >> Can someone give me a few books which will help me to learn C on FreeBSD... > >> I'd like to start actually understanding how to design programs for > >> FreeBSD.... The last programming language I used was PASCAL over 3 years > >> ago... Any suggestions would be great... > > > - The C Programming Language or "The C Bible" by Kerningham and > > Ritchie (publisher forgotten). If you intend to work with C > > and you need a little bit of direction, some algorithms to > > get started with, lots of Unixisms (stat'ing files, reading > > directories, file I/O, etc), and a huge number of Unix (C) > > functions and their parameters/return values, I'd definitely > > suggest getting this book. I think that it's in 2nd edition. > > That's "Kernighan"; publisher is Prentice-Hall. Of the books mentioned, > it would be my first choice. > > (Brian Kernighan is credited/blamed(*) for christening the OS that Ken > Thompson wrote & Dennis Ritchie helped port to C (a language that > ritchie wrote, based on "B", which was based on "BCPL") "UNIX".) > > > * Ritchie, D. M., "The Evolution of the UNIX Time-sharing System", in > AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories Techincal Journal, Vol. 63, No. 8, > October 1984. See the last sentence of section II, "Origins". > > david > -- > David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator I wouldn't recommend the Kernighan/Ritchie book as a first book, although it is a good book on C. Probably a more authorative source for C would be any book by Herbert Schildt, Osborne/McGraw Hill Press. Check out: http://www.osborne.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message