I know most people don't like the 'teach yourself * in 21 days', but I find teach yourself c in 21 days a prety good book. I don't have any other books to compare it to, but I like it.

I read (parts of) some old C book from the mid '80s, written by Stephen Prata. I learned some basic C from it, but I learned most by writing my own programs, and checking others programs.

For swedes: "Lättpocket om C" lollipops. Spend your money on somethig better, like garbage or heroin.

"Lättpocket om *" are often written by the same guy, Jesper Ek.. I wonder if he masters any of his subjects at all... Anyhow, I don't like his books really.

I once borrowed Teach Yourselv VB6 in 21 days from the library.. I just hated how they went through a lot of basic stuff on 300 pages (but somewhere in between, there was always something I couldn't miss) so I never had the patience to read it .

I once read a book by Stephen Prata! Damn, I forgot what it was...

Anyhow, I don't care what kind of a book/tutorial it is, as long as I find it useful.

Yeah, I've got the C for Linux in 21 days, it's the same as jrgrant has, I guess.

It's really good, excpet some of the tables are b0rked, i guess it's because of the translation to german.

why buy C books in a store if they are free in the net ? I think they also got "C in 20 days" @ http://www.informit.com
REALLY cool place to check for free books ... I recommend it =)
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I have Java in 21 days and VC++ in 21 days and I think the one about java is actually pretty good but the one about VC++ isn't. Those 21Days-books do have some similarities in style and of course structure but still, they are very different in quality in my opinion.
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What about your local library? The selection is slim... but the price is right . It's nice to be able to read a book while reclined on a couch rather than being in front of a computer screen.

well, kagez, having real books is just better. It's something you can hold and read from. Reading long texts on trhe screen is very uncomfortable, and it's just easier to make little bookmarks in a real book than to launch your borwser and browse though some shit before getting to the info.

Printed books are better, imho

I've got Perl in 21 days mainly as a reference book. It's alright, but the explainations are a little screwy in it. [addsig]

Peter: About Jesper Ek, he has written some good books (Actually, I learned programming from one of his books, "Delphi 2 programming"). But, the "Lättpocket"s are crap...

Speaking of Delphi, how is it? I have never used it, but I know some Pascal, so maybe it would be good for me...

Delphi is as far as I know pretty good.
They always say it's as easy as VB but has the power of C++
I've never really coded in it though because pascal isn't really my sort of language.
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I might learn that just for fun ... But hey, Robert, you was supposed to make an Algol programmer of me, whazzup with that???

Delphi _is_ pretty good. It's not as MS-like as VB, and almost as good as C++.

Personally, I think C in 21 days is a good book even though its mostly example. They give you a whole bunch of code and tell you what it does. I would like a book that explains thoroughly the keywords and main functions of the language. Not just some example mumbo jumbo. When I first learned C I thought for example: printf ("*string"); was all it could do and int and such. C in 21 days is ok, but it needs to get into stuff in detail.

I never read "teach yourself C in 21 days", but I got "teach yourself C in 24 hours", what i'm wondering though is, what is the difference beetween C and C++? like whenever I write something in C, it never works, but if i write it in C++ it ALWAYS works, what's the deal with that? do you have to know C before you can be an good C++ programmer? (for you see, I know just a little bit of every single programming language, just try me!)

I got the book "C++ in 21 days" in german ... it's a really good book ... Everybody who wants to learn C++ should read it ... you can also read it for free on the web (LEGALLY!!) @ http://www.informIT.com
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