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Message: [QUOTE="Bernhard Holzmayer, post: 2381542"] My suggestion: If you feel good with the book = it pleases you and you like the style how it is written, then go ahead with it. Don't expect that you'll be master of the C universe after you have finished with you reading. Learning C is (like learning any spoken language) learning syntactical elements, semantical rules and then develop a living style. You may learn syntactical elements and some semantical rules from such a book. Reading another one might add to your knowledge. But at some certain point you have to made that decision, that either you drop this language, or start living with it. As soon as you make up your mind to make this language part of your life, you'll start to really "learn C". You'll stop reading books, you'll start reading code from other developers, creating code by yourself, getting it criticized by others, redoing it at a whole or part of it, and sometimes throw it away after lots of wasted hours and days. Years later, you might end up as a good programmer, either because you started with a book like "C For Dummies" - or because you dropped it and started with any other. There are three important things: from any hint anybody gives you, retrieve the good part and keep it. from the same hint, retrieve the bad part, and ignore it. go ahead with what you think is the best. Bernhard [/QUOTE]