I was fortunate to attend a C Programming Workshop recently at my workplace. The training sessions I had attended so far had always been boring. This was different. Though my copy of K&R book is about 14 years old (and I had also been actually programming in C for quite some time – close to 10 years in my professional life), I learnt a lot of new things from this workshop. We were introduced to strange aspects of C language. Most of these things are known and we encounter them rarely in our regular day to day programming. We often work around them. But it is very enlightening to know those strange things.
About 2 years back, I bought Peter van der Linden’s great book “Expert C programming – Deep C secrets”. I read afew pages here and there and moved on with something else. But this training got me back into this book and I am greatly enjoying the book again. The book mostly covered most of what was covered in our Workshop, though the instructor didn’t use or mention this particular text. He used Harbison & Steele and K&R.
I am also reading and working through another great book – Programming pearls by Jon Bentley at the moment.
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