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**mikeshoup** · January 13th, 2004

I must recommend that if you do learn C, C++, do not learn it through tutorials. A good book is the best way to pick it up.
There are a couple good books I can recommend, the ones I learned through.

The first is Sam's Teach Yourself C Programming in 21 Days. This is an excellent, easy to understand, well developed book for C programming, as long as you keep in mind you won't finish it in 21 days. If you do, you went way too fast. Programming is a long and slow road of learning.

The second is K&R The C Programming Language, Second Edition. This one could be used to learn form the beginning, but is fairly technical, and I wouldn't recommend without first some background with C. If you do have background, this book will really increase your skills. It is a great book.

Please keep in mind too, that this will teach you only ANSI C, or in other words, DOS/Command Line/Terminal C. You won't be able to write win32 programs without further learning.

January 13th, 2004	#34 (permalink)
mikeshoup Emu author Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Englewood, CO, USA Posts: 292	I must recommend that if you do learn C, C++, do not learn it through tutorials. A good book is the best way to pick it up. There are a couple good books I can recommend, the ones I learned through. The first is Sam's Teach Yourself C Programming in 21 Days. This is an excellent, easy to understand, well developed book for C programming, as long as you keep in mind you won't finish it in 21 days. If you do, you went way too fast. Programming is a long and slow road of learning. The second is K&R The C Programming Language, Second Edition. This one could be used to learn form the beginning, but is fairly technical, and I wouldn't recommend without first some background with C. If you do have background, this book will really increase your skills. It is a great book. Please keep in mind too, that this will teach you only ANSI C, or in other words, DOS/Command Line/Terminal C. You won't be able to write win32 programs without further learning. __________________ Awards stink like poo.