Originally Posted by
MK27
I have never looked at "C for Dummies", but I did have "Programming for Dummies" out from the library for a long time. I thought it was a pretty decent reference, actually -- in fact, I've never seen a more succinct and useful description of sort algorithms (bucket, bubble, merge, quick, heap, etc.) anywhere. There was virtually no long winded tripe and great use of pseudo code and flow diagrams. Way better than 80% of online tutorials/blogs.
A lot of people seem to enjoy learning with the K&R book phantomotap recommends tho. People will show up here with the exercises, etc, and they (K&R) are the dudes who wrote the language in the first place, so they probably have some insight.