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book on c language for beginners

is2 — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:12:12 GMT

Hello everyone.

Could you please help me knowing the book on c language for beginners.

Thank you.

Re: book on c language for beginners

RW9 — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:22:54 GMT

Erm, this is a SAS forum not a C forum? Check out one of the forums associated with C or perhaps Amazon. Although to be fair, most of the basics are pretty straight forward to learn without needing a book, I have used Csharp a fair bit and never bothered with a book. There is a free Csharp compiler/ide at:

http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/Default.aspx

Which is what I use.

Re: book on c language for beginners

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:42:06 GMT

The "Kernighan-Ritchie" (The C Programming Language) is still the bible on basic C.

But be aware that C is nowadays outdated for anything but UNIX kernel or embedded device programming, where speed and a small footprint are of utmost importance.

Re: book on c language for beginners

Reeza — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:57:02 GMT

You should consider C++ at least..

Re: book on c language for beginners

RW9 — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:08:25 GMT

I would caution against that. C is the underlying language of C, Csharp, C++, ObjectiveC amongst others. So learning the simple form of C, before jumping into memory management (or infact other things like GUI's and such like) would be the best start - then branch out into the larger arenas. You can use CSharp for instanace without knowing anything about pointers and memory management that C++ has to, and still write industry applications.

Re: book on c language for beginners

ChrisHemedinger — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:54:04 GMT

Fun fact: most of the SAS functions and procedures that we use are implemented in C.

SAS also has some C++, Java, Lua -- and more assembly language than you might expect.

Client apps are C# (EG and SAS Add-In for MS Office), Java (SAS DI Studio and Enterprise Miner), or HTML5 (SAS Studio).

Speaking as someone who learned C in college and even taught a class in it, I think it's an excellent way to learn computing basics and how programs and OSs work together. C has strict rules, and if you don't follow them your program won't compile or work correctly at all, so it's good for learning some discipline.