Recommend me some Good books for C/C++,PHP

[The Conqueror]

Hi all!
Can u please recommend me any good books for learning C/C++ , PHP ? Also video tutorials If any.

[amitava82]

Lynda.com video tutorial. You know where to get em.

[The Conqueror]

Thanks mate ,ya i kno. but was thinking of opinion from experienced programmers.i will get lynda.com tutorials

[amitava82]

hey I'm experienced in PHP and started with Lynda..

[skippednote]

If u want hard copy then try "Let us C"

[The Conqueror]

Cool,Thanks mate for recommending me lynda.com . BTW how is totaltraining.com?

[gaurav_indian]

^^ Nothing is better than books.

[amitava82]

Originally Posted by The Conqueror

Cool,Thanks mate for recommending me lynda.com . BTW how is totaltraining.com?

I tried one of em but didn't like it.

[The Conqueror]

@gaurav_indian : yeah i am getting some good books as well with videos.and btw i learnt some basic 3d in maya from lynda.com , their tutorials are excellent.

Originally Posted by bassam904

If u want hard copy then try "Let us C"

Thanks , will try to get this.

How is for dummies series ? I read a lot of good reviews about this book on amazon.com

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by bassam904

If u want hard copy then try "Let us C"

Uh man... that book is exclusively for programmers interested in Windows. If you want to be a global C programmer get this book - http://books.google.com/books?id=3fZ...ummary_s&cad=0

This book is completely based on ANSI C that is supported everywhere.

[chandru.in]

"Let Us C" encourages lot of bad practices. Esp due to its recommendation of TC which is in itself a dinosaur compiler. I'm talking till 5th edition. Don't know if things have changed now.

ANSI C by Balaguruswamy is a good one. But even that misses few important subtleties of C. The best way to learn C is "The C Programming Language" by Ritchie himself (along with Kernighan). It gives you implementation details of even the standard libraries.

But you need to be a patient. It may not be having a very analogy filled style like other books. But it has almost all details about C.

[The Conqueror]

Originally Posted by The Unknown

Uh man... that book is exclusively for programmers interested in Windows. If you want to be a global C programmer get this book - http://books.google.com/books?id=3fZ...ummary_s&cad=0

This book is completely based on ANSI C that is supported everywhere.

Thanks mate

Originally Posted by chandru.in

"Let Us C" encourages lot of bad practices. Esp due to its recommendation of TC which is in itself a dinosaur compiler. I'm talking till 5th edition. Don't know if things have changed now.

ANSI C by Balaguruswamy is a good one. But even that misses few important subtleties of C. The best way to learn C is "The C Programming Language" by Ritchie himself (along with Kernighan). It gives you implementation details of even the standard libraries.

But you need to be a patient. It may not be having a very analogy filled style like other books. But it has almost all details about C.

I will try to get balaugruswamy , heard a lot about him as well as the ritchie's book.
Thank you

[pooja dudhatra]

for c & c++ Balaguru samy is the best book. And let us c by yashvant kanetkar is also good for c. And I also don't Know about PHP.I think 21 days is good for it.

[The Conqueror]

^^Thank you..
I just got the video tutorials of PHP from lynda.com and they are amazing

[chandru.in]

As an interesting read, if you are a novice programmer, try this.

http://norvig.com/21-days.html

[The Conqueror]

Cool read,thanks

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by chandru.in

As an interesting read, if you are a novice programmer, try this.

http://norvig.com/21-days.html

nice one.

@thread_creator,

for PHP just read its super online manual!! that's the way I learnt PHP...

[anuj919]

Read Free Resources for Learning Programming for more "Free Resources for Learning Programming"

[The Conqueror]

I am having exams and had lost track of this thread,sorry for late reply.
@The Unknown :
Thank you.

Originally Posted by anuj919

Read Free Resources for Learning Programming for more "Free Resources for Learning Programming"

Thank you.

[Garbage]

For PHP - Programming PHP
Publisher : O'Reilly Media

nice book..

[The Conqueror]

Originally Posted by Garbage

For PHP - Programming PHP
Publisher : O'Reilly Media

nice book..

Thanks
Now I shall be getting all the books you all mentioned and should tell you how the books are after my exams (28th)
Thank you for helping me.

[ManishSinha]

For PHP - "PHP and MySQL Bible"

This was the book with which I started with. I felt that it contained all those which a beginner should know.

[Indyan]

For C++ get Thinking With C++ by Bruce Eckel. Its a great book and you can even download it for free from Eckel's website. But the book assumes that you know some programming. Another good book is Accelerated C++.
Both of these books follow modern conventions and standardised C++ not the outdated crappy TC v3. Let US C is very entertaining, its easy to read and is a good first book to just warm up. But after glancing through it once and getting the basic ideas its best not to refer to it. For C try K&R.