The Famous Kernigan-Ritchie Book


  The C Programming Language, by Brian Kernighan and Dennis 
Ritchie.  Published by Prentice-Hall.  Copyright 1978.


This is the book that everyone's heard of, and for good reason: 
Kernighan-Ritchie is the definitive text on C. But that doesn't mean that it 
is the book that everyone should use to learn the language.  K&R was written 
for seasoned programmers, and unless you have a lot of programming experience, 
you will probably want to use this book as a reference, and find another book 
from which to learn the language.


  The C Answer Book, by Clovis L. Tondo and Scott E. Gimpel. 
 Published by Prentice-Hall, Inc.  Copyright 1985.


This book is a companion to Kernighan-Ritchie; it provides solutions to all 
the exercises in K&R.  If you decide to learn C exclusively from K&R, you will 
probably want to get this book.