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Re:Modern C, Second Edition by whydoyoucare on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @03:50PM (#21009298)
The C language can be best learned from "The C Programming Language, 2nd Ed" [1], also known as "K&R book". Pair it with excellent notes by Steve Summit [2], and you don't need any other book to master C.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-2nd-Brian-Kernig...

[2] https://www.eskimo.com/~scs/cclass/notes/top.html

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Re:Modern C, Second Edition by boring_twenties on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @09:31PM (#21012352)
No doubt K&R is second to none, but it only covers C89. Since then we have 99, 11 and apparently now 17 too?
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Re:Modern C, Second Edition by whydoyoucare on Thursday September 19, 2019 @11:54AM (#21017395)
A useful approach is to learn 95% of the language from K&R, and then refer to the newer standards for the incremental changes.

If there is a book as good as K&R and covers the new ideas, I'm interested to learn about it! :-)

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