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Re: Best way to learn C?

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Best way to learn C?
Date 2021-12-19 15:21 +0000
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luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> writes:

> On Saturday, December 18, 2021 at 5:35:01 AM UTC-6, Torbjörn Svensson Diaz wrote:
>> What is the best way to learn C? Which are the best tutorials and
>> which are the best books? Can someone please give me a little
>> guidance?
>> 
>
> Others have given good book suggestions. For the best /tutorial/, I'd
> recommend Brian Kernighan's original tutorial paper. It's a little
> outdated and quirky. But it's well written and *short*. It gives a
> reasonably complete overview that should make a more modern text
> easier to follow.
>
>   https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-tutor.html

No, I can't agree.  At time, maybe, but not now.  Amongst the big
problems are: no function prototypes, implicit int, old-style function
definitions, the old =<op> syntax, unique structure tags (because they
are all interchangeable), no initialisation of structures nor of local
variables and '\0' as an end-of-file marker.

But then there's almost no use of library functions, no unsigned types,
no typedef, no long, no void, no const and all local declarations have
to be at the start of a function.  Some of these would, perhaps, be
deliberately omitted from a first tutorial, but I would not students to
learn that C has only four types: char, int float and double.

I suppose it's still possible that this is the best tutorial but that
says more about the others than it does about the suitability of this
one (there are a lot of awful ones out there).

-- 
Ben.

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