I have long since given up programming in C when it was by my side every day, but I keep it for three reasons, keep your best memories, keep you worst memories and the fact I could basically do my entire job using the contents of a single book is a bit mind blowing, in the days on StackOverflow, where we reach for an answer from the hive mind, rather than working it out from first principles ( )

One of the best technical manuals ever written. Happy memories: at my first job I programmed microcomputers in Z80 assembly language. I learned C from this book and introduced the language to the shop... ( )

From the days of Unix on a tape, and PDP/11 computers (I really miss DEC); it's the universal language for one of the longest lasting operating systems out there. I used this book to learn C, from a day when there weren't classes in it (COBOL or FORTRAN were the lingua franca of the day). Nothing ever equals the success of that first "Hello, World." ( )

Indeholder "Preface", "Chapter 0. Introduction", "Chapter 1. A Tutorial Introduction", "1.1 Getting Started", "1.2 Variables and Arithmetic", "1.3 The for statement", "1.4 Symbolic Constants", "1.5 A Collection of Useful Programs", "1.6 Arrays", "1.7 Functions", "1.8 Arguments - Call by Value", "1.9 Character Arrays", "1.10 Scope: External Variables", "1.11 Summary", "Chapter 2. Types, Operators and Expressions", "2.1 Variable Names", "2.2 Data Types and Sizes", "2.3 Constants", "2.4 Declarations", "2.5 Arithmetic Operators", "2.6 Relational and Logical Operators", "2.7 Type Conversions", "2.8 Increment and Decrement Operators", "2.9 Bitwise Operators", "2.10 Assignment Operators and Expressions", "2.11 Conditional Expressions", "2.12 Precedence and Order of Evaluation", "Chapter 3. Control Flow", "3.1 Statements and Blocks", "3.2 If-Else", "3.3 Else-If", "3.4 Switch", "3.5 Loops - While and For", "3.6 Loops - Do-While", "3.7 Break", "3.8 Continue", "3.9 Goto and labels", "Chapter 4. Functions and Program Structure", "4.1 Basics", "4.2 Functions Returning Non-integers", "4.3 More on Function Arguments", "4.4 External Variables", "4.5 Scope Rules", "4.6 Static Variables", "4.7 Register Variables", "4.8 Block Structure", "4.9 Initialization", "4.10 Recursion", "4.11 The C Preprocessor", "Chapter 5. Pointers and Arrays", "5.1 Pointers and Addresses 83", "5.2 Pointers and Function Arguments", "5.3 Pointers and Arrays", "5.4 Address Arithmetic", "5.5 Character Pointers and Functions", "5.6 Pointers are not Integers", "5.7 Multi-dimensional Arrays", "5.8 Pointer Arrays; Pointers to Pointers", "5.9 Initialization of Pointer Arrays", "5.10 Pointers vs. Multi-dimensional Arrays", "5.11 Command-line Arguments", "5.12 Pointers to Functions", "Chapter 6. Structures", "6.1 Basics", "6.2 Structures and Functions", "6.3 Arrays of Structures", "6.4 Pointers to Structures", "6.5 Self-referential Structures", "6.6 Table Lookup", "6.7 Fields", "6.8 Unions", "6.7 Typedef", "Chapter 7. Input and Output", "7.1 Access to the Standard Library", "7.2 Standard Input and Output - Getchar and Putchar", "7.3 Formatted Output - Printf", "7.4 Formatted Input - Scanf", "7.5 In-memory Format Conversion", "7.6 File Access", "7.7 Error Handling - Stderr and Exit", "7.8 Line Input and Output", "7.9 Some Miscellaneous Functions", "Chapter 8. The UNIX System Interface", "8.1 File Descriptors", "8.2 Low Level I/O - Read and Write", "8.3 Open, Creat, Close, Unlink", "8.4 Random Access - Seek and Lseek", "8.5 Example - An implementation of Fopen and Getc", "8.6 Example - Listing Directories", "8.7 Example - A Storage Allocator", "Appendix A - C Reference Manual", "1. Introduction", "2. Lexical Conventions", "3. Syntax Notation", "4. What's in a name?", "5. Objects and Lvalues", "6. Conversions", "7. Expressions", "8. Declarations", "9. Statements", "10. External Declarations", "11. Scope rules", "12. Compiler control lines", "13. Implicit declarations", "14. Types revisited", "15. Constant expressions", "16. Portability considerations", "17. Anachronisms", "18. Syntax Summary", "Index".

Introduktion og beskrivelse af programmeringssproget C. Første udgave, så denne version er ganske og aldeles forældet. ( )

It's K&R. No more need be said. It's the Book. ( )