[mrerrormessage]

What about "The C Programming Language"? Didn't that make a lot of us better programmers by teaching us how to use C?

[agentultra]

It's a classic and certainly taught me a lot.

It's also one of the more slim programming books on my shelf. I've considered handing to to friends interested in programming. Simply because I hand them a Python book with thousands of pages and I can see them visibly cringe.

I also find the K&R style quite readable. :)

[RBerenguel]

I also love K&R's style, it is one of my favourite books about programming

[gtani]

Konig's Traps and Pitfalls, another slim book

http://www.amazon.com/C-Traps-Pitfalls-Andrew-Koenig/dp/0201...

[AndrejM]

Yes. But I'd also recommend getting Stephen Prata's C Primer Plus. It covers C99, and talks about more complicated topics such as multiple pointer indirection and the preprocessor.

[rosstafarian]

yeah k&r is great i remember going through it my first time and being amazed at how elegant the example code was. Really a great book

[forgotAgain]

I learned from the original edition back in the 80's. When I saw the price at Amazon I was surprised. The list price is given as $67. The Amazon price is $48. The book's a classic but the pricing seems excessive given that the edition is 22 years old.