The real learning of the C language starts with “The C Programming Language” written by Ritchie and Brian Kernigan.
He invented the C programming language, which is appreciated by a huge number of programmers around the world, and despite its age is still one of the most used programming languages around.
This language is arguably the foundation of most of the softwares that we use. Although common man may not know the name Dennis M Ritchie as the name Steven Paul Jobs, but still he is the person who put in the foundation of most of the modern programming. He was one of the inventors of the UNIX OS. If readers don’t know the importance of UNIX, iOS, Mac OS X and Android are all based on UNIX like systems.
Although the C programming language has its flaws, its simplicity and the raw power it gives the programmer far outweighs these flaws.And his book “The C Programming Language” (co-authored with Brian Kernighan) truly set a standard for excellence. If done with a sense to learn, the book will give you a feeling like that there would be no language too hard to learn, no program too difficult to write. And yes that is true if people started programming in C and then moved on to other languages.
Here’s a word cloud made of words from the book “The C Programming Language.” Not just a few paragraphs, but words from the entire book. The top 10 most frequent words are function, declaration, expression, character, pointer, return, int, program, operator, and value. The top word, function, appears a total of 717 times. Those who have read the book would not be surprised by this list, as Kernighan and Ritchie wasted no time on fluff, but instead focused on getting the concepts across.
May his soul REST IN PEACE.
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