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by jswinghammer 5533 days ago
If you have read the K&R C book I am not sure you would say that. It's great no matter what you do with it.
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Personally, I don't agree. I think a majority of the value of K&R actually comes from the exercises.

K&R gives you a very good, clear and detailed explanation of the topic at hand and then immediately gives you several exercises to practice it. If you don't do the exercises the information will just fall out of your short-term memory whereas if you actually do them your long-term memory will get engaged as well as general muscle-memory for C coding.

That's a bizarre thing to say. Do you think the K&R book is a great way to learn French?
No offense but are you just being obtuse? Clearly I meant something other than what you are suggesting.