looking for a good programming book

[SJ Zero]

I have a book "Ansi C for engineers and scientists" which says that tutorials on-line aren't the only place that'll happen.

[Diroga]

used book stores, thrift stores etc

[xteraco]

aaaaa! i hate used books.... i absolutly hate them, they look so junky on my bookshelf, and the pages are sometimes torn, no way... heh

[Moneo]

xteraco,

Have you downloaded Ethan Winer's book yet? Remember that it's free. You can take a quick look at it, and if you feel it's not what you wanted, it didn't cost you anything. Plus, you can always keep it for future reference for any QB coding.

Now, if you really want a sofisticated, general book on programming, I suggest you look at Donald E. Knuth's world famous series of books called "The Art of Programming". The first 3 books of the series are:
Fundamental Algorithms
Seminumerical Algorithms
Sorting and Searching

Take a look at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/det...0?v=glance

However, since they're expensive, I know, I have 2 of them, I suggest going to your local Public Library first. If perhaps they don't have them, they can get them for you.

Knuth is great, but a little hard to read because he expresses and proves most algorithms mathematically. I find myself looking things up in his books very often.

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[jgr]

I already had new how to program in business basic, but when I wanted to try qbasic, I got "Qbasic by Example" by Greg Perry. It got me going. It is a lot of the basics, plus uses a lot of examples. Then I came here and asked questions and really got rolling.