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From: ceej@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Chris J Hillery)
Subject: Re: Suggestions of beginner C books?
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bmaple@isis.cs.du.edu (Bob Maple) writes:

>I am a new programmer in Amiga C using Lattice/SASC 5.10.  If anyone has any
>suggestions of good books to help me a long I would really appreciate it.
>I currently have "Amiga C for Beginners" by Abacus and "Inside the Amiga with
>C" by The Waite Group.  The latter has done a fairly good job of teaching me
>about winodws and gadgets, but doesn't get into how to make say a gadget do
>something.  The former is more of a introduction about C in general.

>I need any information having to do with intuition at this point!

As far as I have seen, there simply _aren't_ any good Amiga C programming
books.  The Waite Group's and Rob Peck's "Programmer's Guide to the Amiga"
are probably the best, but neither is really that good.  "Mapping the Amiga"
appears to be a very good reference, as does Morimore's 2-volume "Amiga
Programmer's Handbook", but neither are nor claim to be tutorials.  One
real good possibility would be to download yourself the "Amiga C Manual"
from hubcap.clarkson.edu (/pub/amiga/incoming/PROGRAMMING) or your favorite
Fish Disk site (disks 456 and 457).  This is a simply amazing labor of love
by Anders Bjerin, consisting of 4 disks' worth of straight to-the-point
instructions on how to do things and dozens of example programs, both
source and compiled and ready to play with.  I haven't been through nearly
all of it yet, but it seems to be an excellent source of learning and is
very clear and consise, if a bit over-simplified in parts (but you'll learn
where later, won't you? =).  I won't claim until I've read more that it's
the best thing since sliced HAM, but at the price it's certainly worth a 
look-see!  (=

Enjoy...

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> : Bob Maple, The Brazilian : Tune in next time for "Stupid White People //:
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Ceej
aka Chris Hillery
ceej@rpi.edu

