On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 03:15:23PM -0600, Jamie Ostrowski wrote: > I have started learning the C language recently, and I wonder if > anyone on the list might have good suggestions for programming books in C > that they might recommend. I like programming books that start you off in First, you should have the C Language Reference by Kernighan and Richie. It's the bible as far as the language is concerned. Second, I would recommend Beginning Linux Programming, published by Wrox Press. I wish I had bought the first edition years prior to when I bought the second edition. It covers all of the great Linux/Unix programming tools including files, sockets, IPC, dbm, shared memory, etc. It also includes some great chapters on other Linux related languages like shell, Perl and Tcl/tk. It reads well (for a programming book) and the examples are great. If you get beyond that, Professional Linux Programming was just published. It continues on into the realm of applications programming without duplicating anything that was in Beginning Linux Programming. Nate