Hello,

What are your favorite books on C/C++. The ones that you reach for first when you have a question, the ones that first made you understand the language, the ones that advanced your know of the language the most.

Feel free to list as many as you like and to give your reasons for liking them so much.

I normally first look at the standard to find information then maybe at the language bible.

C standard
C bible

C++ standard
C++ bible

For understanding the C++ Language and best practices then it has to be the Scott Meyers and Herb Sutter series of books.

For C and general *nix stuff, I no longer use books.
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/toc.htm
Best reference out there.

Learned C from the original K and R book, and a series of now out of print books by Herbert Schildt such as "Born to Code C".

C++ Anything except Stroustrup's {spits} book "The C++ Programming Language". That one held me back.

Got good mileage out of Steve Oualline's "Practical C++ Programming."

Not C++ per se, but lots of C++ examples which expressed the concepts:
"Object Oriented Programming and Design" by Rumbaugh, Blaha, Premerlani, Eddy and Lorensen

i personally like the complete reference series by herbert schildt ant the how to program by deitel and deitel.
any way, the gcc compiler is the best compiler i have used, including turbo c++ (really hopeless) and visual c++ in windows

any ways, how to download books from openguoup

C++ Programming by Larry Ullman

It brings you through everything and gives you a good understanding of object oriented programming. What I like about it is the examples are completely simplified and only focus on the subject at hand.

Great Book. I've also got "Practical C Programming."

For UNIX I learned a lot from the "UNIX System Adminstrator's Bible", but I believe it to be out of print.

A good one that hasn't been mentioned is
"Design Patterns in Communications Software"

Also, I really liked "Linkers & Loaders" by John Levine. And the Dragon Book was pretty good as well.

Hello,

I just received my copy of "Topics in C Programming" by Kochan and Wood.

Book I reach for the most? C/C++ Programmer's Reference

That book, or in fact any of his books, are not worth the cutting down of the trees. See the c++ faqs mailing list for reasons, or just check out the reviews:
http://www.accu.org/index.php/book_r...39;s+Reference
http://www.accu.org/index.php/book_r...39;s+Reference
His first edition(which you link to) and his second are pitiful yet I am unsure about the third edition and simply would not give it the time of day.

Have a look at his books which are recommended
http://www.accu.org/index.php/book_r...t&field=author

Hehe. Yeah, its not amazing, and some stuff is really glossed over, but most of the critisms are for its coverage of C++, which I don't use nearly as much. He basically just took all the keywords and standard functions and wrote a paragraph for each. But, it is what I reach for most when programming in C and don't have man handy. I also got it for a couple bucks used