{"id":3629,"date":"2011-04-04T01:14:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T06:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:11:00","slug":"best-book-to-learn-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/best-book-to-learn-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Best book to learn C?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you could recommend one book to a total beginner who wants to learn how to program in C<\/a>, what would it be?<\/p>\n

It shouldn’t be microcontroller-specific (more general is better), but it does need to make sense to someone with zero <\/strong>programming experience (in any language).<\/p>\n

(Myself, I started with K&R<\/a>\"\", although I had some experience with BASIC<\/a> (on the C64 and Apple II), Logo<\/a>, and shell programming before that.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you could recommend one book to a total beginner who wants to learn how to program in C, what would it be? It shouldn’t be microcontroller-specific (more general is better), but it does need to make sense to someone with zero programming experience (in any language). (Myself, I started with K&R, although I had … Continue reading Best book to learn C?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,10],"tags":[359,119,120],"class_list":["post-3629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-resources","category-microcontrollers","tag-avrbook","tag-c","tag-programming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-Wx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":723,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/programming-and-customizing-picmicro-microcontrollers-by-myke-predko\/","url_meta":{"origin":3629,"position":0},"title":"Programming and Customizing PICmicro Microcontrollers, by Myke Predko","author":"Jeff","date":"December 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Programming & Customizing PICmicro Microcontrollers, by Myke Predko, is probably the best book out there for someone who is starting out with the PIC series of microcontrollers from Microchip.\u00a0 I used Myke's book as both a tutorial and reference when I created my PIC RGB Video Display.\u00a0 Since then, I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Books and Resources"","block_context":{"text":"Books and Resources","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/books-and-resources\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=mightyohm-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0071361723","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":294,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/arduino-based-avr-high-voltage-programmer\/","url_meta":{"origin":3629,"position":1},"title":"Arduino-based AVR High Voltage Programmer","author":"Jeff","date":"September 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Update 01\/02\/09: A PCB version of this circuit is in the design stages - some preliminary information is here. 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