[Swlug] C Programming Book Recommendations

[Dave Cridland]

Hi Morgan,

I would probably not bother with books, or You Tube videos, or any of that.
Indeed, I'd be hard pressed to bother with C, these days, but still.

Assuming you have some programming experience outside of C, then I'd plunge
into some open source project that interests you, and lean very heavily on
AI to explain the code and suggest how to fix things. The likes of Copilot
have seen a vast amount of C, and can guide you through it easily enough.

The major problem with C as a language is that the standard library is so
poor by modern language standards - no containers or other advanced data
structures, for example - that it's astonishingly difficult to "learn C",
and much easier to (for example) "learn GTK+", or even learn how C is used
within one particular program.

Still, you might find this useful: C reference - cppreference.com
<https://en.cppreference.com/w/c>

Dave.

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 10:03, Morgan Green via Swlug <
swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am very new to programming, but I want to start out on C to grasp the
> fundamentals of all programming languages. Can anyone recommend me any
> paperbooks on C programming that is suitable for complete beginners?
>
> Kind regards,
> Morgan Green
>
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