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From: andrew@Kesa.COM (Andrew B. Carlson)
Subject: Re: Learning C
Message-ID: <1995Jan5.184457.5330@Kesa.COM>
Organization: Kesa Corporation
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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 95 18:44:57 GMT
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sp@flexaut.tuwien.ac.at (Stephan Spiess) writes:

>In article <3e4epi$1ms@ccnet3.ccnet.com> smatthew@ccnet.com writes:
>>From: smatthew@ccnet.com
>>Subject: Learning C
>>Date: 31 Dec 1994 12:26:26 -0800

>>     I'm just getting started in robotics and I was wondering what would 
>>be the best way to learn C. I know BASIC very well, but there don't seem 
>>to be many 68hc11 compilers for Basic.

>Forget BASIC.
>The good old book from Kernigham and Ritchie I think is an excellent 
>introduction to C. 
>Also the manuals shipped with the Borland Products are very easy to read and 
>full of examples. (i.e. Turbo-C Manual - not to be mixed up with Turbo-C++).
>If you have an account on a workstation ask the system administrator for the 
>C-Language manual. UNIX licenses always contain a C-compiler, if there is a 
>manual, too, you get it for free.

A good (and older) book for leaning C is "C langauge for programmers" by Pugh.
This includes many comparative examples in other programming languages.  While
Kernigan & Ritchie is the definitive text on pre-ansi C, this  book is more
approachable.  The Turbo-C manuals are very useful too. 

For the 68hc11, I have used a compiler from Introl which was very good.  There
are others to.

-Andy
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