7 Jun
2013
7 Jun
'13
3:36 p.m.
On 06/07/2013 06:24 PM, geneb wrote:
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.
Ahh, but printed on crappy thin paper? I hate those.
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.
Funny thing was, when I put it on my bookshelf, I
discovered I already
had a copy. :)
ROFL!!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA