The C Programming Language: Third Edition

[E. Robert Tisdale]

Can anybody recommend a textbook to replace K&R2?
It should explain all of the new C99 features.

[Keith Thompson]

"E. Robert Tisdale" <E.**************@jpl.nasa.gov> writes:

Can anybody recommend a textbook to replace K&R2?
It should explain all of the new C99 features.

H&S5 (Harbison & Steele, 5th Edition) has good C99 coverage. It's not
a replacement for K&R2, since it's more of a reference than a
tutorial.

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[E. Robert Tisdale]

Keith Thompson wrote:

"E. Robert Tisdale" <E.**************@jpl.nasa.gov> writes:

Can anybody recommend a textbook to replace K&R2?
It should explain all of the new C99 features.
H&S5 (Harbison & Steele, 5th Edition) has good C99 coverage. It's

not a replacement for K&R2, since it's more of a reference than a
tutorial.

Do you know any that are less like references and more like tutorials
(explaining C99 features)?

[Keith Thompson]

"E. Robert Tisdale" <e.**************@gmail.com> writes:

Keith Thompson wrote:

"E. Robert Tisdale" <E.**************@jpl.nasa.gov> writes:

> Can anybody recommend a textbook to replace K&R2?
> It should explain all of the new C99 features.

H&S5 (Harbison & Steele, 5th Edition) has good C99 coverage. It's

not

a replacement for K&R2, since it's more of a reference than a
tutorial.

Do you know any that are less like references and more like tutorials
(explaining C99 features)?

No, I don't. (I think Schildt was actually one of the first to come
out with a book covering C99, but I wouldn't touch one of his books.)

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.

[Michael Mair]

Keith Thompson wrote:

"E. Robert Tisdale" <e.**************@gmail.com> writes:

Keith Thompson wrote:

"E. Robert Tisdale" <E.**************@jpl.nasa.gov> writes:

Can anybody recommend a textbook to replace K&R2?
It should explain all of the new C99 features.

H&S5 (Harbison & Steele, 5th Edition) has good C99 coverage. It's
not
a replacement for K&R2, since it's more of a reference than a
tutorial.

Do you know any that are less like references and more like tutorials
(explaining C99 features)?

No, I don't. (I think Schildt was actually one of the first to come
out with a book covering C99, but I wouldn't touch one of his books.)

Yep. When I started to work at my current job, this was the only C
book they had there. I first looked around in it, then had a bad
feeling -- some things where slightly off, some concepts plainly
wrong. Then I had a second glance at who wrote it.
He has gotten many things right -- but many are subtly or less subtly
wrong so that I cannot recommend this book at all.
-Michael
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