From: jcadam AT pcisys DOT net (James Adam)
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Subject: Re: NEwbie
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 22:13:28 GMT
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On 15 Jul 1997 02:10:11 GMT, skater1284 AT aol DOT com (Skater1284) wrote:

>Hi!!
> I'm just starting to learn DJGPP coming out of knowing very little of
>QBasic and knowing little algebra. What can you reccomend i do to learn.
>What books are good for complete idiots?

When I was trying to learn C, I went through many books, most were
worthless as they jumped from programs that were idiot-simple to ones
that were brain-numbingly complex(for the beginner).  One excellent
book (the one I learned most of my knowledge of C from), is The Waite
Group's C Programming Using Turbo C++, Second Edition (ISBN
0-672-30399-X).  Although it is meant for Turbo C++, most of the
examples will compile under any decent compiler.  Just skip over the
Turbo C specific stuff (The graphics functions, which is only one out
of fifteen chapters anyway).