[MrUnderhill]

I've recently been reading Scott Meyers' Effective (Modern) C++ books. They are fantastic - can anyone recommend something similar for C? I.e. books that assume you're familiar with the language, but explains pitfalls and best practices in a practical way.

[tehwalrus]

21st Century C is very very good.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033677.do

Enjoyable to read through, covers tools as well as the language, and a very good reference of good practise. It covers the basics and then goes into depth on a few of the things C is supposed to be bad at, demonstrating good ways to work (strings, threads, OOP, libraries).

I have a copy on my bookshelf at work, and have been referring to it extensively this week (exposing a C entry point to a C++ world...) It has steered me away from some fairly silly things a couple of times!

It does disagree quite strongly with the article though.

[fnord123]

Deep C Secrets.

[krylon]

That book is great, very in-depth, yet fun to read.

One caveat, though, this book is from the mid-nineties, so some parts are a little dated. Still, very much worth reading.