C Programming: A Modern Approach, 2nd Edition by King is a good beginner book.
21st Century C by Ben Kelemens is also a good book.
21st Century C by Ben Kelemens is also a good book.
I would recommend that as well. Dr. King was one of my favorite professors, but I bought that particular book on my own.
Just from a quick glance, Modern C appears to be a much more in depth book. It appears to cover things like memory alignment, advanced types like unions, malloc, threads, etc.
Learn C the Hard Way is more of a quick introduction. You learn the basics, like pointers, basic data structures, basic types and then learn to do something interesting with those basics (build a web server). It also teaches some valuable real life practices that Modern C doesn't touch on, like how to structure your project, makefiles, how to use Valgrind and gdb.
Modern C has an entire chapter called "malloc and friends" where it goes into much more depth about malloc, calloc, realloc, etc.
The book is a good introduction to programming in C and I'm glad I read it. You obviously have a history with the author and I'll thank you to keep your past impressions out of this particular discussion.
Every other C book seems to disagree, but OK.
Does the book cover the -> operator? Does it mention free and realloc? You need those to do stuff, at least.
> You obviously have a history with the author
How is this obvious, since it is incorrect?
That said, yes it is damned annoying to have someone that doesn't understand the intricate details of the language poop all over that community and act as if "well i've contributed lots of code in C, why listen to a bunch of language lawyers, that isn't important anyway" as if the two are mutually exclusive. There are some of us that have been using C for years for actual work and are also intricately familiar with the prickly details of the standard. Those are the people that you should be looking for C books. Zed Shaw consistently shows he would rather hear the sound of his own voice and diminish things that are uninteresting to him rather than put in that work to become an expert on all facets of the topic he is claiming expertise.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/16422/zed-shaw-gets-schoo...