Hi
On 1/19/07, Roshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- Vihan Pandey wrote:
> Give me a PC XT with
> DOS(Free DOS would do) and C loaded on it, and copy
> of Yashwant Kanetkar's
> Let Us C i could set days and weeks at a stretch :-)
[begin Off from the topic]
A bit surprising to know that you (yes, vihan),
probably started with "Let Us C", nevertheless, a good
book. (I did too, but that was an old edition, and I
haven't read it completely).
I'm also lucky to find that my college library has
finally the latest version 7.0, with the book also
including topics on programming with Linux. In fact,
it is Redhat Linux 9.0. The author likes KDE and uses
KWrite to write C programs. :)
[end Off from the topic]
Ok. I don't want to shock many people here. And before I say
something, I must say, I did read LUC as my first C book (I think) and
found it good as well. The point is many people who start new with C (
maybe without any programming exp ) find it easy to start with -
that's the reason its good - other wise its not.
Pointers in C is another book by YPK. Now if you read the
chapter/section on Binary Trees, you would say, hey nice explaination.
Only to find later an uncanny similarity from Data Structures in C and
C++ by Tenenbaum et al. Its a green colour book, very nice one, imho.
But maybe its just coincidence. But again, the starting chapters are
really simplistically explained.
But honestly, one needs to have a copy of K&R if you are into C.
And if you are doing C++, please read Stroustoup after you
have learnt a bit. But keep and read the following books handy -
Effective C++, More Effective C++, Effective STL ( read/study STL
first, google for SGI STL tutorial ) and C++ Coding Standards. The
articles in these are arranged in "Items". I just read them randomly
and I never fail to get shocked or learn a new thing ( that E
Balagurswamy or YPK surely didnot cover in their books ) everytime I
read them. And trust me, you won't learn such things in most colleges.
But the library might just have book. Issue it or buy it.
Cheers!
Pradeepto
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