Regardless of what book(s) you are "recommended" in college or by friends, none I found more helpful for a beginner with limited or no programming experience than a book I found at the local used book store for $2.50. The book is entitled "Teach Yourself C in 21 Days" from Sams Publishing, [C] 1994. Yes, it's old but it's C --> not much in C has changed. Heck, at amazon, it's only a buck 90! I'd say most of the 'simple' questions in this forum and the other C forums I've visited can be solved by just reading the first couple chapters. It goes through I/O, various tags and overall code styles/questions. Pretty simple stuff that easily can prepare you for college courses or complex coding later on. Just thought I'd throw this out there as it helped me tremendously and figured I'd pass on the knowledge.

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I've read it but it's a bit outdated (yeah, I know it's hard for a C book to be outdated...), humorous, and overall decent. However, I'd recommend K&R which is pretty much the staple C book (it's written by the creators of C) and sells for $2, or Programming in C (3rd Edition) which is a slightly more user friendly introduction to C. If you're interested in system level C, and code optimization, pick up Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, you won't regret it. It was written by the people who wrote the book (excuse the pun) on system level c, c and ASM interaction, etc. The book's sophisticated, readable, and comes with a full regiment for free at CS App. The time I spent taking their class was by far the most valuable in my programming career.

 

 

 

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