Programming

Hi,

I have been using shell scripts and other unix commands for my daily file and other operations onto the unix box.

I have never written C or any other programming lanugae, But now I want write programs in C, but I am not able to co-relate with the work,Can you please help me to undersntad what kind of advaced excerises I can do and relate to my work.
Thanks in advace

Since we don't know what your job description is, we can't tell you what exercises would relate to your work.

Generally, a good starting point for C programming is The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie. From there on it largely depends on what you want to do.

I agree that the K&R book is a good place to start. I also like 'Topics in C Programming, Revised Edition' by Stephen Kochan and Patrick H. Wood. It's an older book but I think still a good general book on the subject. Here's the ISBN numbers...

ISBN-10: 0471534048
ISBN-13: 978-0471534044

One other thought I had was that since you have already been doing shell scripting, maybe what you can do is to try to write particular utilities in C that you can call from your shell scripts to do certain things faster. That will also require that you write your programs in a way that works well to integrate into shell scripts.

Advanced Programming in the UNIX environment is also an excellent book.

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But if you are pretty much new to C then you can start with K&R2.

'Practical C' is aimed at step-by-step program building using C. 3rd Edition is out - used copies are about $US 3.00.

Yes, I'll second that -- I agree that's an excellent book too!

It's very unusual for a computer book of most any type to stand the test of time -- this is one that stands up well, as well as the K&R.

Steven's books (network I&II, Advanced programming) are fantastic. But. They are way beyond what the OP needs.