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Re: C textbooks

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Originally Posted by Rikithasta
What do you think is the best book to learn a C programming from for a absolute beginner.
You're actually asking two questions, what's a good book to learn programming, and what's a good way to learn the C language.

I agree with Mike Shaul in that there's really nothing better for the C language than Kernighan and Ritchie, but he's right, it doesn't discuss actually programming much. Practical C Programming is pretty good as well, but doesn't really do much discussion on programming.

I usually recommend Mastering Algorithms in C as a followon to either of these books that actually does a good job discussing algorithms.