Reddit mentions of C: A Reference Manual, 5th Edition

I like Harbison and Steele

Did you solve all exercises through?

Because:

Read != Learn

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If you did all that.

You still have to fast through C: A Reference Manual by Harbison & Steele

Because...

K&R covers barely 40% of C features and the ones it covers it doesn't go deep enough on its proprieties!

CARM do!

>PS: You will not need to [re]solve historical C bugs if you read more!

The best book on plain C is "C: A Reference Manual" by Harbison and Steele. The K&R book is too ambiguous and out-of-date.
[See here:] (https://smile.amazon.com/Reference-Manual-Samuel-P-Harbison/dp/013089592X)

That said, Go is powerful, easy-to-learn, and easy-to-use. Highly recommended.

These are my standard recommendations to anyone who wants to learn the C language these days:

https://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Modern-Approach-2nd/dp/0393979504/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537025256&sr=8-1&keywords=king+c+language&dpID=41%252BbFKtFHjL&preST=_SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch

https://www.amazon.com/Reference-Manual-Samuel-P-Harbison/dp/013089592X/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537025419&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=herbison+steele

The first one is a great book to learn C from the basics to the details of the standard library, and it's updated to cover the C99 Standard. The second is more of a reference that is very useful once you get more experienced, it covers C99 as well, it is basically the C Standard document rewritten for humans : ) My students find the first one very complete and full of good exercises and explanations. Not everyone has bought the second, those who have find it invaluable.

This book is a good reference, IMO:

C: A Reference Manual (5th Edition) by Samuel Harbison and Guy L. Steele

The reference by Harbison and Steele is highly reviewed and may serve you better if you're looking for a reference text specifically.

http://amzn.com/013089592X

Yes, that is required C reading.

Also Expert C Programming, which is actually funny at times.

Then I hear C: A Reference Manual is the last C book you'll need after those other ones, but haven't gotten to it.

I too started with C as my first language using K&R and "learn C the hard way" but i abandoned both halfway. I've started from beginning with "A modern approach to C" as my main source and C: A Reference Manual as, well reference manual when i wanted more in depth knowledge about particular subject. After you're done with Modern approach you should go back to K&R and finish it in order to have your foundation properly rounded.

Edit: I should add few more resources that generally helped me a lot when I started:

http://c-faq.com/

C Traps and Pitfalls

C Standard Library

Things you should avoid in C

A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++

There is a freely available draft of the ANSI C standard online. For all practical effects, it's as good as the ANSI C standard document itself, as far as I know.

http://flash-gordon.me.uk/ansi.c.txt

However, I've only mentioned ANSI C because of K&R2, which covers that version of C. If someone is interested in learning C professionally to the level of accuracy the standard provides, some book like H&S (http://www.amazon.com/Reference-Manual-5th-Edition/dp/013089592X/), which covers C99, is probably more recommended, or even the standard document itself. I only know one book which covers C11, and I'm not sure if it's a good book (http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-5th-Edition-Experts-Voice/dp/1430248815/).

Draft versions of the standard which are released right before the standard itself are as good as the real deal, and are free. A professional C programmer probably can afford to buy the standard document however.

Sure it's in K&R, and that's the original source for a rule retold in many forms.

There were several very good books from the 80's that might have mentioned it - if could have been Harbison & Steele that he recalled.

If you're actively coding in C and like books, H&S is the best reference outside of the actual ANSI standard.

K&R is outdated. For the new C99 standard, you'll need something like C: A Reference Manual.