[ILUG] c book

[Niall Sheridan]

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 00:39:24 +0100
Brian Foster <blf at utvinternet.ie> wrote:

>   | Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:31:35 +0100
>   | From: nils Olofsson <nils at eircom.net>
>   | 
>   | will be up in the 'big smoke' on saturday, and i wanted to buy a good c
>   | linux programming book in the book store near trinity (cannot remember
>   | the name) any way i looked on amazon.com and found Begining Linux
>   | Programming, I just want a good book to start off with ....
>   | any Ideas
> 
>  Hodges Figgis may be the bookshop yer thinking of.
> 
>  it's not clear (to me anyways) if you want a book
>  on C, or on the Linux (or GNU?) API; and if the
>  API, whether a reference manual or a usage guide.
>  (or is it that you want a book on *ix principles?)
> 
>  if C, I'd suggest K&R2, the original and still the
>  best (IMHO):
> 
>    Brian W Kernighan and Dennis M Ritchie,
>    «The C Programming Language», 2nd Edition,
>    Prentice-Hall, 1988,
>    ISBN 0-13-110370-9 (hardback?),
>    ISBN 0-13-110362-8 (paperback?).
> 
I bought a copy of that in Hodges & Figgis just over a week ago.
They had a few copies and it goes for around EUR50 (paperback).


Niall