Not a guru for beginners.

[Guest guest]

Kernighan and Ritchie invented the C

language. His books serve as the

reference manual and other author

writing on C refer to Kernighan and

Ritchie to clear their doubts and to

verify their understanding.

 

Yet, when I started learning C

language by reading Kernighan and

Ritchie books, I got immensely

frustrated. I thought, I was never

going to be able to learn C language. I

thought either I have no comprehension

or, the authors are total dorks.

 

I read few other books on C

language and learned it fairly well.

After learning C language to some

extent, I returned to reading the book

by Kernighan and Ritchie again and was

awe-stuck by its elegance, efficiency,

accurateness and its economy of

expression. I thought, this was the

only book I will ever read.

I finally understood why not only

students but, also so many teachers and

authors go ga-ga over this book :

 

 

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cbook/

 

 

 

 

 

> > PS: Ramana is not for 'beginners'.

Read him now, and, you might totally

understand him.

 

 

 

 

http://www.poonja.com/Ramana.htm