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From: porsche@primenet.com (Daniel J. Carrington)
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Subject: Re: Beginner to C/C++ looking for some good books
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 21:58:42 MST
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In article <44iee1$nm8@access1.digex.net> rdd@access1.digex.net (R. D. Davis) writes:
>From: rdd@access1.digex.net (R. D. Davis)
>Subject: Re: Beginner to C/C++ looking for some good books
>Date: 29 Sep 1995 23:44:01 -0400


>Make sure that you learn about pointers; if you don't get a good grasp
>on them, then you're bound to have problems with C.  If you begin to
>use UNIX, make sure that you learn about using curses for screen
>management in addition to learning about routines for X-Windows,
>because there are still lots of ASCII terminals in use out here.

What source would you suggest for learning more about pointers?  I've got  
"Object Oriented Programming in Visual C++", and "How to Program C++" from 
Deitel & Deitel (sp?).  The former doesn't do anything for me.  So far, the 
latter seems really good, so far.  But I like to learn from as many sources as 
possible so that I can look at things from several different viewpoints and 
possibly grasp them more easily.  So any other suggestions for reading 
material would be very helpfull.  Thanks