Thread: Can you recommend...

I picked up the Sams "Teach yourself C in 21 Days", and I am finding it rather useless from a beginners standpoint because its geared around Windows and I don't use Windows.

The first "Type & Run" program (print_it) would not compile at all as it stood and took me most the night googleing to even figure out how to get it to compile, then, it seg faulted.

I would really like some experts advice on what text I should get that is not specific to Windows/Dos/Microsoft and more spicific to Linux/Unix/GNU.

I appreciate it!!!

Joe

C is a portable language. If you only write standard C, it should run on any platform (in theory at least, sometimes not true in practice). There is really no reason for a beginner book to go non-standard (or be platform-specific). I can think of a few explanations - 1) the book is ancient (for programming, at least get a book published within 10 years or so), 2) the author doesn't know better, or 3) he works for Microsoft.

Most good beginner books are platform-neutral. They may only teach you how to install a compiler on one platform, but the code examples should work on all platforms.

There is a books recommendation thread.
C Book Recommendations

Thanks for the replies!!!! I will check out the C Book Recommendations thread.

Joe