Read an authoritative source (K&R is good; there are better ones) K&R is a classic, but is it a good way to learn proper C programming technique? This makes o

Read an authoritative source (K&R is good; there are better ones) K&R is a classic, but is it a good way to learn proper C programming technique? This makes one wonder -- from Zed Shaw's online version of "C The Hard Way" [0]: I myself believed that until I started writing this book. You see, K&RC is actually riddled with bugs and bad style. Its age is no excuse. These were bugs when they wrote the first printing, and the 42nd printing. I hadn't actually realized just how bad most of the code was in this book and recommended it to many people. After reading through it for just an hour I decided that it needs to be taken down from its pedestal and relegated to history rather than vaunted as state of the art. He goes into more detail in his critique, e.g. Where K&RC runs into problems is when the functions or code snippets are taken out of the book and used in other programs. Once you take many of these code snippets and try use them in some other program they fall apart. They then have blatant buffer overflows, bugs, and problems that a beginner will trip over. There's more -- and he goes through some K&R code too. [0] http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/krcritique.html http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/krcritique.html