From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 18 12:23:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from saturn.math.uaa.alaska.edu (saturn.math.uaa.alaska.edu [137.229.134.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F0D014CAA for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:23:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred@saturn.math.uaa.alaska.edu) Received: by saturn.math.uaa.alaska.edu id LAA0000016814; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 11:21:52 -0800 (AKDT) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 11:21:52 -0800 (AKDT) From: "Frederick J Polsky v1.0" To: Mark Ovens Cc: Darren WIebe , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good c newbie documentation In-Reply-To: <19990818185540.A299@marder-1> 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 While K&R is the canonical C reference for newbies something along the lines of _Practical C Programming_ from O'Reilly is probably more apropos. Would still recommend K&R as a reference though. -- Frederick J. Polsky v1.0 Chair, UAA ACM Student Chapter On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 03:41:28PM -0600, Darren WIebe wrote: > > Hello: > > > > I would like to learn to use the c and c++ programming languages. I > > have looked around on the net but have not been able to find much. I > > would appreciate it if you would give me any recommendations that you > > have for good books and other info for newbies to c. > > > > The C programming Language by Kernighan & Ritchie (the people who > wrote C). ISBN 0-13-110362-8, Prentice-Hall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message