From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 15 14:11:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04262 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:11:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA04164 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:11:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04646; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:10:53 -0500 (CDT) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma004580; Tue, 15 Sep 98 16:10:29 -0500 Received: from localhost (nrahlstr@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA22078; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:10:28 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tundra.winternet.com: nrahlstr owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:10:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Nathan Ahlstrom Reply-To: nrahlstr@FreeBSD.ORG To: Joe cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Learning C on FreeBSD... In-Reply-To: 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 > > 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 > The Kernighan/Ritchie book _is_ the authorative source for C. The book that you are suggesting is probably easier for a C newcomer to understand. Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@winternet.com Run FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message