C is a complex programming language that is difficult to pick up on-the-go by reading online tutorials. A comprehensive book is often the best way to learn the language, and finding a good book is the first step. It is important to avoid badly-written books, and even more importantly, books that contain serious technical errors.

Saying that however, this book goes through the entire C++ standard of the time explaining the rationale, the possible implementations, and features of the language. This is not a book to learn programming principles and patterns on C++, but to understand every aspect of the C++ language. Thinking in C++ (Bruce Eckel, 2nd Edition, 2000).

Dec 3, 2009 · I've read 'The C Programming Language', what should I be doing now? Is there anything important in C that's missed out in the book? Specifically interested in the Linux side of development, so is t...

Jan 21, 2016 · Most of all, K&R is from before the language was standardized, and it is from a time when the computer landscape looked quite different. It might be a nice second read, but perhaps there are better books for learning proper, modern C.

Sep 18, 2015 · Today I reached page 167 of The C Programming Language (second edition Brian W. Kernighan & Dennis M. Ritchie) and found that the author says I must cast malloc. Here is the part from the book...

Apr 7, 2014 · The book also said that using 'A' instead of 65 is better and more useful for programmer reading the code.

Aug 8, 2012 · "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie, commonly referred to as K&R, is an excellent C book; Ritchie, after all, largely invented the language, though it does tend to assume some existing programming knowledge. Be sure you have the second edition; the first describes an earlier version of the language.

May 23, 2015 · The C language is still popular, particularly for open source software and embedded programming. We hope this book will be useful, or at least interesting, to people who use C.

Aug 25, 2010 · My experience in C is mostly from second edition of The C Programming language which is a very old book. What has changed in C since it was released, what obsolete or deprecated functions should I avoid?

After The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, some of the books most favoured by beginners turn out to be ones best avoided, such as anything by Herb Schildt or even the O'Reilly Practical C Programming, and there doesn't seem to be much alternative to these. Otherwise most of the material available is about C++.