[Crazian]

Which C programming book would you guys recommend to begin programming in C?

[blue++]

C Programming Language (2nd Edition)
http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Lang...0131103628

I've been reading through it. It is a straightforward and concise book.

I've uploaded it here for your convenience.

[cp4tj]

I would personally use A First Book of ANSI C 4th Ed.

The book is really a good head start for beginners for C since it has a lot of programming exercises for you to answer and it has a lot of illustrations so reading it wouldn't be boring. :)

http://www.amazon.com/First-Fourth-Editi...1418835560

[Funtoo]

The C Programming Language, the original and the best.

[SIM-574702]

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/diixilign5te3t3/w1iWMH6grp

Here is my Dropbox folder with programming ebooks.

[Crazian]

Thanks for all the suggestion guys!

[Perfect_Soul]

Beginning C form Novice to Professional. Simple and straight :)

[strongard63]

I have a problem in C/C++ function prototypes
a function can be declared like this

int add() {} or
void add () {} or may be in other prototypes that I do not know

but I do not understand this function prototype

string add() {} ??!!???? what is this ???

I find something similar in a big piece of code and here it is :

string translateHundred (int hundred_chunk)
{
// handle special cases in the teens
if ( hundred_chunk < 20 ) {
return num_to_text[ hundred_chunk ];
}
int tens = hundred_chunk / 10;
int ones = hundred_chunk % 10;
return tens_to_text[ tens ] + padIfNeeded( num_to_text[ ones ] );
}

string translateThousand (int thousand_chunk)
{
if ( thousand_chunk < 100 )
{
return translateHundred( thousand_chunk );
}
else
{
int hundreds = thousand_chunk / 100;
int hundred_chunk = thousand_chunk % 100;
return num_to_text[ hundreds ] + " hundred" + padIfNeeded( translateHundred( hundred_chunk ) );
}
}

apparently here , translateHundred and translateThousand are functions with two parameters each:

int hundred_chunk
int thousand_chunk and they have both curly braces and they are not classes or structures

so why :
string translateHundred (int hundred_chunk) {}
why the word string ??

[vulgarX]

Actually the best book I wold recommend is Head First C.