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On 4/17/2017 7:14 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> If you are essentially teaching yourself to write programs for your own
> pleasure and to understand the way to do it, you can do a lot worse than
> to get a copy of "The C Programming Language" edition 2 by Brian Kernighan
> and Denis Richie, download a C compiler and work your way through the
> book, writing, compiling and running the examples in each chapter. This
> is, quite simply, the best written book on learning to program that I
> know, and as a small (270 page) paperback its not a huge investment.
>
> If you stick with C and, after that, read and work your way through "The
> Practice of Programming by Kernighan and Pike, you'll not only know how
> the program, but how to write readable, well-structured programs and how
> to make them easy to test as well.
>
> At that point you'll be equipped to learn and work with different
> programming languages and have the basis for using them fro solving
> almost any programming problem.
>
> I know this is off-topic for this newsgroup, but if I knew any book that
> covered programming in Java as well as "K&R C ed. 2" covers C I'd have
> recommended that.

If one was to learn a simpler procedural language before going
for a more complex object oriented language, then I would suggest
Pascal not C.

Arne