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On Monday 22 January 2007 12:14 PM, Debarshi Ray cobbled together some glyphs to say: Debarshi,
- I and other normal MIDDLE CLASS students did NOT have access to the
internet.
There were NO competent faculties around to guide us.
We had to use whatever WE HAD.
Do not just crib about the above points. It was mostly the same with me too.
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There is no point trying to convince somebody who is already convinced the other way. I have tried reading YPK's LUC once, it looks student friendly superficially, what I couldn't accept was that the author implicitly taught the students that Turbo C is the ``standard C'', and anything else is a platform specific implementation. For example, all die hard YPK fans tell me that ``C in Linux[sic] is so different ... geez! it doesn't even have conio.h!!''. LUC may be good for beginners, but it is a awful trade-off between teaching the right and wrong, albeit in a _friendly_ manner. One more thing that pissed me off was the absolutely horrible typesetting ... it seems the book is written in M$ Weird and is a pain for the eyes. K&R is undoubtedly one the best programming books ever written ... it's such a small book but it packs a lot of punch in less pages. Another point to be noted is that LUC costs 2x than K&R. So not only is it a great book, it's very affordable too (costs < USD 2 in India).
Regards, BG
- -- Baishampayan Ghose b.ghose@ubuntu.com Ubuntu -- Linux for Human Beings http://www.ubuntu.com/
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