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Re: Book on C programming - suggestions?

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Originally Posted by Kevin Watson
You should get the second edition. Here's a link to it at amazon.ca. As has been said elsewhere, K&R is more like a dictionary of the language, not something you'd use as a primer.

-Kevin
Bah! I know many, many, people who learned C from K&R! I wouldn't do that if you were a total newbie, but for anyone with a modicum of conceptual programming experience K&R is the way to go. The appendices to function as a great refrence though.
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