need C crash course book

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On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 10:09 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 03/06/2009 09:45 AM, ref wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > So I have been tasked with the impossible (as usual) and I need to write
> > an apache module, and given what it needs to do, I want to compile it
> > for maximum speed run time. I have Nick Kew's book "The apache modules
> > book", and now need to get a crash course in C. I was wondering what
> > books you guys would recommend, other than the Kernigen & Ritchie book
> > which I have. I guess I am looking for a 'best practices'/tutorial kind
> > of book. I have solid PHP/JS,  reasonable Perl, and passing experience
> > with Java/Python (just not enough time behind the wheel for them to be
> > solid). 
> > Any pointers anyone ?(no pun intended ;) ...and yes, I know this will be
> > a crunch, but I _love_ a good challenge and something to sink my teeth
> > into)
> >
> > Richard
> >   
> I taught C at Northeastern for a while, and have been using C for many 
> years. The book we used at Northeastern was as below.
> C Programming: A Modern Approach" by *K. N. King 
> <http://www.knking.com/index.html>
> http://www.knking.com/books/c/
> *
> 
> 
> Another book is "/C/ How to /Program" by Deitel. I brifly had Harvery 
> Deitel as a professor when working for my CS masters. While I like 
> Deitel's books, they are overly complex for beginners. I have Deitel's 
> C++ book because most of my work here is in C++. I actually learned C 
> using the original K&R that I still have and by implementing the C 
> runtime library for PDP 11 C using the 1989 draft standard.
> /

yup, that is exactly what I was looking for... the KnKing book will be
the one... not cheap though is it ? ;)
thanks for the pointer, now to go dereference it !

richard