The C Programming Language: Third Edition

[E. Robert Tisdale]

Can anybody recommend a textbook to replace K&R2?
It should explain all of the new C99 features.

 

[Keith Thompson]

Can anybody recommend a textbook to replace K&R2?
It should explain all of the new C99 features.

H&S5 (Harbison & Steele, 5th Edition) has good C99 coverage. It's not
a replacement for K&R2, since it's more of a reference than a
tutorial.

 

[E. Robert Tisdale]

H&S5 (Harbison & Steele, 5th Edition) has good C99 coverage. It's not
a replacement for K&R2, since it's more of a reference than a
tutorial.

Do you know any that are less like references and more like tutorials
(explaining C99 features)?

 

[Keith Thompson]

Do you know any that are less like references and more like tutorials
(explaining C99 features)?

No, I don't. (I think Schildt was actually one of the first to come
out with a book covering C99, but I wouldn't touch one of his books.)

 

[Michael Mair]

No, I don't. (I think Schildt was actually one of the first to come
out with a book covering C99, but I wouldn't touch one of his books.)

Yep. When I started to work at my current job, this was the only C
book they had there. I first looked around in it, then had a bad
feeling -- some things where slightly off, some concepts plainly
wrong. Then I had a second glance at who wrote it.
He has gotten many things right -- but many are subtly or less subtly
wrong so that I cannot recommend this book at all.


-Michael