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So I'm a web developer, as I imagine a large portion of the Hacker News community is. I learned to program on C in college, but am interested in learning a more
by benihana 14y ago
So I'm a web developer, as I imagine a large portion of the Hacker News community is. I learned to program on C in college, but am interested in learning a more proper (in the engineering sense) way of programming C. Should I look at this book? Should I just read Zed's Learn C the Hard Way?
- trippplezz 14y agoI would recommend "C: A Modern Approach", 2nd ed by King (http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Modern-Approach-2nd-Edition/dp/0393979504/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353084145&sr=8-1&keywords=c+a+modern+approach http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Modern-Approach-2nd-Editio...) It's a hefty tome but that's not necessarily bad if you want to (re-)learn the language and the tricks in a proper way. Easily in my personal Top 5 books for C (The others are in no particular order: "Pointers on C", "Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets", "The Standard C Library", "C Interfaces and Implementations".)