Resources to learn C programming

Wolfgang M. Bereuter wmb at internettrainer.com
Thu Jun 23 14:03:41 EDT 2005


Alex,
On 23.06.2005, at 15:35, Alex Tweedly wrote:

> Haven't seen that one. But in general my favourite writer's style  
> is that of Donald Alcock, in his "Illustrating ..." series. I had  
> the good fortune to work for him (as a summer job while at  
> university - I learnt more in that 2 months than in most of the  
> rest of the 4 years :-)  That was when he was a civil engineer more  
> than he was an author - but even then his writing style was unique  
> and just plain fun.
>
> Writing in the first person, informal style for a reference manual  
> for a stress analysis package was something of a breakthrough.  And  
> his insistence that hand-lettered text (almost calligraphy) was  
> easier to read than printed text, and made the info easier to  
> understand, was not something I was likely to learn in a university  
> CS course.
>
> So I would definitely recommend "Illustrating C".

Thanks for that tip, Alex!
Simply great!! (that´s really brainfriendly learning)

I had a lok at this book at Amazon. I understoond in a few minutes,  
why you have learned more from this guy in 2 month, than from others  
in years...

Thanks again!

regards
Wolfgang M. Bereuter

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