7 Jun
2013
7 Jun
'13
8:01 p.m.
On 06/07/2013 10:20 PM, geneb wrote:
Ahh, but printed on crappy thin paper? I hate those.
I just checked and the paper isn't that bad.
Oh ok, you got lucky. I got sucked in with the "international
edition" on a power electronics engineering book via eBay a few years
ago. I won't make that mistake again. That paper is so thin, I can
actually READ THE TEXT FROM THE NEXT PAGE. No joke!
It actually isn't THAT bad. I just checked again (couldn't remember the
paper quality) and it turns out the one I already have is a K&R syntax,
first edition (1978).
Excellent.
> I tried to
learn C from a variety of books and got nowhere. I
> bought K&R
> and it all made sense within an hour. Yes, it's expensive, and it's
> not a
> thick book, but it's well worth the money...
I learned C from the original K&R book as well. It's an amazingly
good book to learn from. I was intimidated by C initially, but the
K&R book made it all easy.
Even now, every time I come across someone who "doesn't understand
pointers" because they're "too hard" (WTF? one of the simplest
concepts in computing!), I teach them via the K&R book, and they "get
it" almost immediately.
Last year I bought a copy of the ANSI version. Turns out it was the
green cover, "not for sale outside of asia" copy. Same content though. Funny thing was, when I put it on my bookshelf, I
discovered I already
had a copy. :)
ROFL!! I'd like to get a white cover ANSI version, but
I'm not spending $44 on it.
I bought the 2nd edition many years ago; I don't recall it being
quite that pricey.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA