Thread: C Book Recommendations

I heartily recommend "Absolute Beginner's Guide to C (2nd Edition)" by Greg Perry.

Take this with a grain of salt. I am an absolute beginner. I found the text to be well thought out, well written and at under 400 pages, not so dense as to be overwhelming. It is an introductory tutorial, not a tome on the C programming language.

FWIW, I bought it, read it, finished it, and liked it.

Not sure if this has been posted, but TCP/IP Sockets in C by Michael Donahoo and Kenneth Calvert is a brilliant book for sockets programming. Good even if you don't have much previous programming knowledge.

hello everybody,

can i konw in which site i can download books related to c programming for free. if there are any suggesting sites then let me know please...

bye,

Naveen.

The first link in google when searching for "Free C Books" is:
http://www.techbooksforfree.com/ccpp.shtml

I went there; downloaded a book; it came in pdfs that must have been 1 or 2 pages big; took ages; tried to read a page; it was passsword protected; coulent find password; realised that even if i did find it I would have to spend hours entering passwords; got bored; deleted it

Yeah its no biggie. Theres loads of free books around on the net, or at least loads of free linux books which is what I'm mostly reading atm.

I'm nearly finished C For Dummies and it's been a very good read. It explains things very well, there's a bit of humour and the pace is very easygoing. Very good book for beginners with no experience like me.

Would The Complete Reference of C be a good book for others who don't know how to program and never programmed before? I seen that book was said in here. I don't know if it's a good book for beginners.

Amazingly, no one has mentioned Numerical Recipes in C, 3rd edition (2007) Press, Teukolsky, Vetterling, and Flannery. This ties in to an earlier post where someone was asking for references on more specifics aspects of C.

This is a tome, 1150 pages or so, that's devoted to scientific computing. Essentially, if you have a need to beat some numbers with a computer, this book will give not only methods to do it, but the most efficient methods and a discussion of their complexity, along with reference code that is easily used in order for your specific application.

This is something worth looking at if you're thinking of doing solutions, to name a few examples, of linear algebraix equations (think matrix inversion, Cholesky decomps, etc.), interpolation and extrapolation, fast fourier transforms, partial diff eq's, integration, root finding, hypergeometric functions (whatever THAT is), discussions of sorting, selections, so forth and so on. I've found this book to be invaluable in doing my work.

Again, this is a very specific reference, so don't look at getting this if you're trying to just learn C. I'm just throwing this out there in case some people have some need or interest in this kind of activity, and haven't already heard of this book.

Originally Posted by Smattacus

Amazingly, no one has mentioned Numerical Recipes in C, 3rd edition (2007) Press, Teukolsky, Vetterling, and Flannery. This ties in to an earlier post where someone was asking for references on more specifics aspects of C.

I noobed this pretty hard, the full name of the book is in fact NUMERICAL RECIPES, not Numerical Recipes in C. The author and edition info are correct.

can u ppl share me an idea abt how is Object Oriented Programing by Robert Lafore for a newbie???

Let Us C by Yashwant Kanetkar which is suggested here is a fantastic book.i have an assignment about reading a file of structures,copying them in a table , creating a new sorted one from it , searching in both files and showing them.It is really really helpful for me so far (managing strings,arrays of structures,files of records,pointers) and has accurate examples of codes and invaluable explanation on them.thanks for the recommendation guys.

Hi,


If you want a comprehensive and good example of file handling which involves all the things you have mentioned. Moreover, you will get some extras also. Just let me know if you want it.

Originally Posted by Griever

Let Us C by Yashwant Kanetkar which is suggested here is a fantastic book.i have an assignment about reading a file of structures,copying them in a table , creating a new sorted one from it , searching in both files and showing them.It is really really helpful for me so far (managing strings,arrays of structures,files of records,pointers) and has accurate examples of codes and invaluable explanation on them.thanks for the recommendation guys.