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[imported_krish]

The best way to learn C is to first refer to some good book. Most of those who start programming start with C-language. It is a very simple but very powerful language. You can do simple math operations to something more dangerous like writing a boot virus , using C.

Books
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The best book for C is Herb Schild - The c++ complete reference which has the entire first part of the book dealing with C.

The manual for C is the The C Programming Language by Kerningham and Ritchie. It is very good for those who have practised little programs and want to test their language skills and improve them. This book has been written by the creators of C themselves.

Online help
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The know-how-to guide can be obtained here :
http://guideme.itgo.com/atozofc/
This is a good book and the authors deserves all the credit for it.

Tools
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There are many compilers out there, but for beginners i would suggest either to use Dev-C++ which can be obtained from here
http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourc...pp/devcpp4.zip

Another is the Turbo C++ 3 Compiler which can be downloaded free, just google out for it.

I hope this information is enough.

[imported_krish]

download the TC3 From here and give the site owner the credit.
http://www.iloop.info/zboard/data/pds/TC3.zip
iloop.info deserves all the credit.

[imported_krish]

I feel if you know C, then you can always learn C++ in no time. There are few differences in the basic syntax and there would be a lot of additional concepts like classes, objects, inheritance, etc...

Books

Refer to Herbert Schildt - C++ complete reference. It's a simple and very good book. You can also try some online tutorials on simple C++ but don't get into the deeper C++ by using some Borland Builder or Visual C++. And don't even try to study the C++ book written by Bjarne Stroustrup at this moment. Its an excellent book, but it's a very complex one for beginners.

Thinking in C++ is another excellent book.

Compilers

Use Tc3 or Dev-c++
those on Linux can use GCC or CC to compile the C programs and G++ ( i think not sure) for C++. I am not sure but GCC can compile C++ programs too, i beleive.


Important Suggestion

Try and learn the data structures concepts. Write your own programs, implementing each of the data structures you come across like stacks, queues, trees, infix-postfix conversion, etc... You do 10 programs of that kind and then you'll get a firm grasp on both data structures and programming concepts.

[enguy]

How about the "Teach yourself " series of books. Are they good? The title sounds attractive.

[imported_Steve]

Teach Yourself from Sam are awesome books, I love them.

I dont know C at all (I know C#) and its just been so beneficial having those books.
They are well worth the small investment.

[Faucet]

Is C# any good. I've heard from a friend that it is about the same and is easier to learn.

[zeroth]

I think C# is on the rise, but I'm still sticking with C++ to write my programs.

[Faucet]

uhh is there any web tutorials that are really great. I don't like reading off of books.