The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

This book is meant to help the reader learn how to program in C. It is the definitive reference guide, now in a second edition. Although the first edition was written in 1978, it continues to be a worldwide best-seller. This second edition brings the classic original up to date to include the ANSI standard.

From the Preface:
We have tried to retain the brevity of the first edition. C is not a big language, and it is not well served by a big book. We have improved the exposition of critical features, such as pointers, that are central to C programming. We have refined the original examples, and have added new examples in several chapters. For instance, the treatment of complicated declarations is augmented by programs that convert declarations into words and vice versa. As before, all examples have been tested directly from the text, which is in machine-readable form.

As we said in the first preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way. We hope that this book will help you to learn C and use it well.

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Nonfiction, Reference, Technology, Technical, Computers

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Brian Wilson Kernighan is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed greatly to Unix and its school of thought.

Reviews

[Anton Kotov · Rating 5 out of 5]

Библия от создателей языка C. Не теряет актуальность несмотря на то, что написана много десятков лет назад.

[Serial_experiments · Rating 4 out of 5]

На самом деле книга написана с учетом того что читатель уже знает языки, Фортран или Алгол-60, почти все ньюансы логики и математических обоснований опущены.