Alejandro Tejada wrote:
For example, i've read this book written
by Mike Westerfield, for ORCA C in Apple II
and i like his writing style... :-D
"Learn to program in C"
<http://www.byteworks.org/resume/samples/ltp.pdf>
But i've been not able to run his examples
in any gnu compiler for windows. :-((
Haven't seen that one. But in general my favourite writer's style is
that of Donald Alcock, in his "Illustrating ..." series. I had the good
fortune to work for him (as a summer job while at university - I learnt
more in that 2 months than in most of the rest of the 4 years :-) That
was when he was a civil engineer more than he was an author - but even
then his writing style was unique and just plain fun.
Writing in the first person, informal style for a reference manual for a
stress analysis package was something of a breakthrough. And his
insistence that hand-lettered text (almost calligraphy) was easier to
read than printed text, and made the info easier to understand, was not
something I was likely to learn in a university CS course.
So I would definitely recommend "Illustrating C".
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