There are lots of introductory C books but this is the first one that has thenononsense practical approach that has made Nutshell HandbooksR famous. Cprogrammin... » 

There are lots of introductory C books but this is the first one that has thenononsense practical approach that has made Nutshell HandbooksR famous. Cprogramming is more than just getting the syntax right. Style and debuggingalso play a tremendous part in creating programs that run well and are easy tomaintain. This book teaches you not only the mechanics of programming but alsodescribes how to create programs that are easy to read debug and update.Practical rules are stressed. For example there are fifteen precedence rulesin C comes before comes before ?. The practical programmer reducesthese to two Multiplication and division come before addition andsubtraction. Contrary to popular belief most programmers do not spend most oftheir time creating code. Most of their time is spent modifying someone elsescode. This books shows you how to avoid the alltoocommon obfuscated uses of Cand also to recognize these uses when you encounter them in existing programsand thereby to leave code that the programmer responsible for maintenance doesnot have to struggle with. Electronic Archaeology the art of going throughsomeone elses code is described. This third edition introduces popularIntegrated Development Environments on Windows systems as well as UNIXprogramming utilities and features a large statisticsgenerating program topull together the concepts and features in the language. «