mrynit

I am a computer engineering student. I want to learn C for the follwoing reasons

• program mirco controllers
• make drivers
• make an OS
• general software
• linux programming

I want a book (I don't like reading e-books) to read to learn C. I already have this book http://www.amazon.com/Programming-AN...dp/0672303396/, which does have good review. I have not read much of it yet. A lot of people like and recomend this book http://www.amazon.com/Programming-La...dp/0131103628/.

There are many different C versions to date. I know K&R is the frist standard and is the core of modern C versions. Next comes all the ANSI/ISO versions. The two books I listed cover the first ANSI C version. My question is what version of C do I learn with respect to what I want to do?

Same as versions, there are multipule C/C++ compilers. I assume gcc is the "best" one out there, as I am leaning more towards the linux side of programming. For mircocontrollers I have seen FOSS compilers for families of controllers.

I know some of the things I want to do can be done using C++. I would prefer to learn C first before moving into the OOP of C.

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