9 of the Best Free C Books | Linux Today

9 of the Best Free C Books

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Steve Emms
Feb 2, 2013

The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie is the complete guide to the ANSI standard C language programming. The authors are the developers of C, and show readers show to take advantage of all of the rich tapestry of C. The book is a classic. However, there is a good range of books that teach C and are available to download without charge. To cater for all tastes, we have chose a diverse selection of informative books for C.

None of the books featured here could possibly replace Kernighan and Ritchie’s masterpiece. However, all of the texts here come with our strongest recommendation. So get reading (and downloading).

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