[ale] C programming books

[Daniel S Cox]

Tri,

At 04:42 PM 6/1/1999 -0400, Tri wrote:
>I'm going to buy a C programming book  from Amazon.com very very soon.
>Is there a "Must Get" book you can suggest for a beginner. I don't want
>a very easy, hand holding book, just one that lays the basic groundwork
>quickly and thoroughly and goes into detail about the advanced stuff. 

	I still recommend "The UNIX Programming Environment" by Kernighan and
Pike.  It starts off with assembling shell scripts, laying the foundation
of "filters", then proceeds with building good filters in C.  You build a
paginator like "more", add a simple-minded spelling checker, and a number
of other useful proggies.  You end up building a "high order calculator",
which parses it's input into bytecode, and executes it.  The calculator has
subroutines with parameters, constants, built in functions, and teaches
yacc with a little diversion on lex.  It's still, IMHO, the best general
introduction to UNIX tools around.

Danny