Its been a while I started learning C. When I asked my teachers about a good book, they all came up with a name; "Let Us C" by "Yashwant Kanethkar" and "ANSI C" by "Balaguruswamy".

I bought both of them. They both are quite awesome texts for a beginner. Then I came up with "ANSI C" by "Ritchie", because he himself said that I am not proficient in the language. Now you can imagine the scenario? The one who invented the language isn't quite confident about using it firmly. But when I purchased...

I assure u, this is a very good book. (10/10)
Recommend it for all those who are trying to learn C/c++ programming.
But i must warn u, Unlike other books, this book is very practical in approach.
You have to be very thorough with the basics contained in the first few units,
As the book goes on the examples gets more an more complicated, but not complicated enough for those thorough with the previous units and ideas.
An ideal way of learning programming, by the time u finished this book.. u'd...

I'm absolutely new to programming and was advised to start learning C to build a base/foundation.
This is a very comprehensive book spanning more than 1000 pages. It really treats you like a lay man and explains everything bit by bit, no pun intended. The book also included a CD containing the essential software material like Visual Studio 2008, Express etc.
The only (minor) flaw was that it, being an Indian Edition, lacked the colour printing seen in the original Edition. That being said an ...

HIGHLY Recommended for C beginners....

A lot of exercise at the end of the chapter, helps improve programming skills...

It describes everything related to programming and at the end of the day, it also gets us to think on certain problems which really help improving algo development...