On Friday, August 15, 2014 10:15:55 AM UTC-7, Randy Zwitch wrote: > > I know the standard recommendation of K&R for people who want to learn C. > But what would people's recommendations be to learn *just enough* C to be > comfortable using C libraries from within Julia? >
The problem with K&R isn't that it teaches you too much C. It's like 80 pages long, and you can read it [1] in like 2 afternoons [2]. The problem is that it's too old, and doesn't teach you enough about the modern C ecosystem. I kind of like Learn C The Hard Way [3], but it's not a quick read at all. [1] N.B. not absorb it... [2] Okay, so I just fact checked this claim on Amazon, and the current edition is 274 pages long. But most of that must be reference or something. I swear the narrative part of the version I read was as tiny as Strunk and White. [3] http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/