[olug] C book recs

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Disclaimer:  I'm an novice programmer at best, but my
thoughts are below anyway, for what they're worth...
> 
> My wife has Deitel/Deitel's 'How to Program C' but
> the edition came out in
> 1994. 

Personally, I'm a fan of the Deitel series, and I too
have the C edition from '94.  In fact, it was the text
book when I took my first programming class back in
'99.  I still have it today and use it when necessary.
 Later editions of their programming series is a bit
cartoonish (I also have Java 4th ed. from them) for my
taste.

I also have "C: The Complete Reference", 4th Ed.,
which I use primarily as a reference, rather than a
main source of information.  The explanations in here
are not near as good as Deitel's.

> I've also looked at O'Reilly's 'Practical C'
> 3rd edition, but it's from
> 1997.  So are these books not useful anymore?
> 
I've looked at "Practical C", but have yet to buy it. 
>From what I can tell, which isn't much, it looks like
a good book, but one I would buy only after I became
much more comfortable with the language.  It does go
into data structure topics (queues, stacks, trees,
etc.), which are a bit more advanced topics in my
opinion.  For myself, I would need to work my way up
to this one.  Besides, I can't remember if it offers
much of a C tutorial in it anywhere, or not.

> Thanks for any input,
> Eric Pierce
> 
Just my $.02.  Hope it helps.

Vince

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