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知乎：C 语言学习的经典书籍有哪些？

《The C Programming Language》（豆瓣）

quora: Which are the best books to learn C?

quora: Which book is best for learning C programming by a beginner?

stackOverFlow: The Definitive C Book Guide and List

给出了不同级别的书。要避免糟糕的书，特别是有错误的书。

注意：

如果你是C语言新手，注意现代C语言（modern C）是指 ANSI C，在1989年之前的东西可能就有点过时了。

The C Programming Language (2nd Edition)的作者是Brian W. Kernighan 和Dennis M. Ritchie，所以这本书被简称为K&R（取两位作者姓的第一个字母，Dennis Ritchie是C语言的设计者）。这本书被很多人推荐，但是，这本书的重点没有放在语言的设计（design）和实践（practice）上，主要原因是写这本书的时间太早了，那个时候很多人连C语言都没听过，所以不会有“最佳实践”。这本书没讲C语言中哪些是不必要的（superfluous），也没讲哪些用法是危险的（dangeros）。所以它可以作为参考手册（reference manual），但作为教学书就不合适了。

参考-所有阶段（reference-all level）

《The C Programming Language (2nd Edition) 》by (Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie ,1988).

《C: A Reference Manual (5th Edition) 》 - Samuel P. Harbison and Guy R. Steele (2002). 包含了C99.

C Pocket Reference (O‘Reilly) - Peter Prinz and Ulla Kirch-Prinz (2002).

The comp.lang.c FAQ - C语言常见问题

标准（The Standard）

The new C standard - an annotated reference (Free PDF) - Derek M. Jones (2009). 注意这里虽然是“new”，但还是指C99，而非C11，毕竟2009看的书。

Rationale for C99 Standard.

新手（Beginner）

• Programming in C (4th Edition) - Stephen Kochan (2014). A good general introduction and tutorial ，552 页.豆瓣： 英，中：C语言程序设计（第4版））.goodreads .有C11的内容，评论说书中错误不少。
• C Primer Plus (5th Edition) - Stephen Prata (2004)，984 pages。豆瓣：英，中：C Primer Plus（第五版） 。goodreads: 5th .这本书已经有第6版本了，2013年的，豆瓣，goodreads .
• C Programming: A Modern Approach (2nd Edition) - K. N. King (2008)，832 pages. A good book for learning C.
• A Book on C - Al Kelley/Ira Pohl (1998).
• The C Book (Free Online) - Mike Banahan, Declan Brady, and Mark Doran (1991).
• C: How to Program (8th Edition) - Paul Deitel and Harvey M. Deitel (2015)，1008 pages. Lots of good tips and best practices for beginners. The index is very good and serves as a decent reference (just not fully comprehensive, and very shallow).
• Head First C - David Griffiths and Dawn Griffiths (2012)，632 pages.
• Beginning C (5th Edition) - Ivor Horton (2013). Very good explanation of pointers, using lots of small but complete programs.
• Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days - Bradley L. Jones and Peter Aitken (2002)，960 pages. Very good introductory stuff.
• Applications Programming in ANSI C - Richard Johnsonbaugh and Martin Kalin (1996).

中级（Intermediate）

• Object-oriented Programming with ANSI-C (Free PDF) - Axel-Tobias Schreiner (1993). The code gets a bit convoluted. If you want C++, use C++.
• C Interfaces and Implementations - David R. Hanson (1997). Provides information on how to define a boundary between an interface and implementation in C in a generic and reusable fashion. It also demonstrates this principle by applying it to the implementation of common mechanisms and data structures in C, such as lists, sets, exceptions, string manipulation, memory allocators, and more. Basically, Hanson took all the code he‘d written as part of building Icon and lcc and pulled out the best bits in a form that other people could reuse for their own projects. It‘s a model of good C programming using modern design techniques (including Liskov‘s data abstraction), showing how to organize a big C project as a bunch of useful libraries.
• The C Puzzle Book - Alan R. Feuer (1998)
• The Standard C Library - P.J. Plauger (1992). It contains the complete source code to an implementation of the C89 standard library, along with extensive discussion about the design and why the code is designed as shown.
• 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School - Ben Klemens (2012). In addition to the C language, the book explains gdb, valgrind, autotools, and git. The comments on style are found in the last part (Chapter 6 and beyond).
• Algorithms in C - Robert Sedgewick (1997). Gives you a real grasp of implementing algorithms in C. Very lucid and clear; will probably make you want to throw away all of your other algorithms books and keep this one.
• Pointers on C - Kenneth Reek (1997).
• Pointers in C - Naveen Toppo and Hrishikesh Dewan (2013).
• Problem Solving and Program Design in C (6th Edition) - Jeri R. Hanly and Elliot B. Koffman (2009).
• Data Structures - An Advanced Approach Using C - Jeffrey Esakov and Tom Weiss (1989).

• C Unleashed - Richard Heathfield, Lawrence Kirby, et al. (2000). Not ideal, but it is worth intermediate programmers practicing problems written in this book. This is a good cookbook-like approach suggested by comp.lang.c contributors.

• Modern C — Jens Gustedt (2017). Covers C in 5 levels (encounter, acquaintance, cognition, experience, ambition) from beginning C to advanced C. It covers C11 threads and atomic access, which few other books do and not all compilers recognize in all environments.

专家（Expert）

• Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets - Peter van der Linden (1994). Lots of interesting information and war stories from the Sun compiler team, but a little dated in places.
• Advanced C Programming by Example - John W. Perry (1998).
• Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment - Richard W. Stevens and Stephen A. Rago (2013). Comprehensive description of how to use the Unix APIs from C code, but not so much about the mechanics of C coding.
• Advanced C: Food for the Educated Palate - Narain Gehani (1985). Great on pointers, pointers to functions, and a variety of advanced topics, such as how stuff is stored in memory, dynamic memory, stack usage, function calling, parameter passing, etc. Assumes you have a good grasp of C to start with. Warning: pre-dates the ANSI standard and a lot of modern programming design.
• Computer Programming: An Introduction for the Scientifically Inclined - Sander Stoks (2008). Great book about scientific use of programming languages.
• Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering - Eldad Eilam (2005). For those who want to test the limits of their ethics.

未分类（Uncategorized）

• Essential C (Free PDF) - Nick Parlante (2003). Note that this describes the C90 language at several points (e.g., in discussing // comments and placement of variable declarations at arbitrary points in the code), so it should be treated with some caution.
• C Programming FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions - Steve Summit (1995).
• C in a Nutshell - Peter Prinz and Tony Crawford (2005). Excellent book if you need a reference for C99.
• Functional C - Pieter Hartel and Henk Muller (1997). Teaches modern practices that are invaluable for low-level programming, with concurrency and modularity in mind.

• The Practice of Programming - Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike (1999). A very good book to accompany K&R.

• C Traps and Pitfalls by A. Koenig (1989). Very good, but the C style pre-dates standard C, which makes it less recommendable these days.

Some have argued for the removal of ‘Traps and Pitfalls‘ from this list because it has trapped some people into making mistakes; others continue to argue for its inclusion. Perhaps it should be regarded as an ‘expert‘ book because it requires a moderately extensive knowledge of C to understand what‘s changed since it was published.

• Computer Systems: A Programmer‘s Perspective (3rd Edition) - Randal E. Bryant and David R. O‘Hallaron (2015). Explains the C language in a disjointed narrative style, like Pulp Fiction.

• Abstraction and Specification in Program Development - Barbara Liskov and John V. Guttag (1986) (not the newer Java-based version by Liskov alone). This is an undergraduate text, with some ideas worth thinking about.

• Composite/Structured Design - Glenford J. Myers (1978). This and other books from the late 1970s and early 1980s by Yourdon and Myers provide excellent insights on structured design.

• Build Your Own Lisp — Daniel Holden (2014). An enjoyable way to learn C.

• MISRA-C - industry standard published and maintained by the Motor Industry Software Reliability Association. Covers C89 and C99.

Although this isn‘t a book as such, every experienced C programmer should read and implement as much of it as possible. MISRA-C was originally intended as guidelines for safety-critical applications in particular, but it applies to any area of application where stable, bug-free C code is desired (who doesn‘t want fewer bugs?). MISRA-C is becoming the de facto standard in the whole embedded industry and is getting increasingly popular even in other programming branches. There are (at least) three publications of the standard, one from 1998, one from 2004, and one from 2012, where the last is the currently active, relevant one. There is also a MISRA Compliance Guidelines document from 2016, and MISRA C:2012 Amendment 1 — Additional Security Guidelines for MISRA C:2012 (published in April 2016).
Note that some of the strictures in the MISRA rules are not appropriate to every context. For example, directive 4.12 states "Dynamic memory allocation shall not be used". This may well be appropriate in the embedded systems for which the MISRA rules are designed; it is not appropriate everywhere. (Compilers, for instance, generally use dynamic memory allocation for things like symbol tables, and to do without dynamic memory allocation would be difficult, if not preposterous.)

• Archived lists of ACCU-reviewed books on Beginner‘s C (116 titles) from 2007 and Advanced C (76 titles) from 2008. Most of these don‘t look to be on the main site anymore, and you can‘t browse that by subject anyway.

Warnings

Be wary of books written by Herbert Schildt. In particular, you should stay away from C: The Complete Reference, known in some circles as C: The Complete Nonsense.

Also be wary of the book "Let Us C" by Yashwant Kanetkar. It is a horribly outdated book that teaches Turbo C and has lot of obsolete, misleading and downright incorrect material.

Learn C The Hard Way - Zed Shaw. A critique of this book by Tim Hentenaar:

To summarize my views, which are laid out below, the author presents the material in a greatly oversimplified and misleading way, the whole corpus is a bundled mess, and some of the opinions and analyses he offers are just plain wrong. I‘ve tried to view this book through the eyes of a novice, but unfortunately I am biased by years of experience writing code in C. It‘s obvious to me that either the author has a flawed understanding of C, or he‘s deliberately oversimplifying to the point where he‘s actually misleading the reader (intentionally or otherwise.)

"Learn C The Hard Way" is not a book that I could recommend to someone who is both learning to program and learning C. If you‘re already a competent programmer in some other related language, then it represents an interesting and unusual exposition on C, though I have reservations about parts of the book. Jonathan Leffler

Outdated

• Practical C Programming (3rd Edition) - Steve Oualline (1997)(Beginner)