wnoise comments on Open Thread: March 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wnoise 02 March 2010 04:58:09PM 3 points [-]

Kernighan and Ritchie is a fine book, with crystal clear writing. But I tend to think of it as "C for experienced programmers", not "learn programming through C".

TAoCP is "learn computer science", which I think is rather different than learning programming. Again, a fine book, but not quite on target initially.

I've only flipped through SICP, so I have little to say.

Comment author: RobinZ 02 March 2010 05:19:28PM 0 points [-]

TAoCP and SICP are probably both computer science - I recommended those particularly as being computer science books, rather than elementary programming. I'll take your word on Kernighan and Ritchie, though - put that one off until you want to learn C, then.