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C/C++ Users Journal.

This monthly magazine (subtitled Advanced Solutions for C/C++ Programmers ) is a useful resource for C and C++ programmers.

Feuer, Alan R. The C Puzzle Book , Second Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989.

This book contains many programs whose output you are supposed to predict. Predicting the output gives you a good opportunity to test and expand your understanding of C. The book includes answers and explanations .

Kernighan, Brian W., and Dennis M. Ritchie. The C Programming Language . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1978.

This is the first book on C. (Note that the creator of C, Dennis Ritchie, is one of the authors.) It constitutes the definition of "K&R" C, the unofficial standard for many years . The book includes many interesting examples. It does, however, assume that the reader is familiar with systems programming.

Kernighan, Brian W., and Dennis M. Ritchie. The C Programming Language , Second Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988.

This edition incorporates ANSI changes based on the ANSI draft that was standard at the time the book was written.

Koenig, Andrew. C Traps and Pitfalls . Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1988.

The title says it all.

Prata, Stephen. C++ Primer Plus , Third Edition. Corte Madera, CA: Waite Group Press, 1998.

This book introduces you to the C++ language and to the philosophy of object-oriented programming.

Ritchie, Dennis M., S.C. Johnson, M.E. Lesk, and Brian W. Kernighan. "The C Programming Language," The Bell System Technical Journal 57, no. 6 (July/August 1978).

This article discusses the history of C and offers an overview of its design features.

Stroustrup, Bjarne. The C++ Programming Language , Third Edition. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997.

This book, by the creator of C++, presents the C++ language and includes the Reference Manual for C++.

Summit, Steve. C Programming FAQs . Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995.

This book is an extended version of the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) file that Summit provides for the Usenet comp.lang.c newsgroup. It lists over 400 questions about C along with answers. A briefer version can be found online at http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html.

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