The C Programming Language

Brian W. Kernighan info, Dennis M. Ritchie info

First published 1978

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About this book

Short, perfect and still the model for technical writing.

The authors

Brian W. Kernighan

born 1942 · Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system

Professor at Bell Labs
Professor at MIT
Professor at Princeton

Profession: Computer scientist, Engineer, Professor
Worked at: MIT, Bell Labs, Princeton
Studied at: Princeton, Toronto
Studied under: Peter Weiner

Wrote the first 'hello, world' program in a tutorial.

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Dennis M. Ritchie

1941–2011 · American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language

Turing Award
Worked at Bell Labs

Profession: Computer scientist, Mathematician
Worked at: Bell Labs
Studied at: Harvard
Studied under: Patrick C. Fischer
Prizes: Turing Award (1983), Japan Prize (2011), IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1982), ACM Software System Award (1983), IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (1990), Computer Pioneer Award (1994), Computer History Museum Fellow (1997), National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1998), Harold Pender Award (2003), IRI Achievement Award (2006)

Created the C language and co-created Unix.

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Reading order

Prerequisite: Code (Petzold)

In print

Yes · Prentice Hall, 2nd edition

Which edition

Get the 2nd edition (1988): it covers ANSI standard C. The 1978 1st edition describes the older, pre-standard language.

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Editions

50 editions · 3 hardcover, 17 paperback · 12 languages

First published 1978

Earliest edition listed: 1978 · Prentice-Hall

1978 · Prentice-Hall · ISBN 9780131101630
1983 · Prentice Hall · Paperback · ISBN 9780131099500
1984 · Prentice Hall Trade · Hardcover · ISBN 9780131099845
1986 · Masson · 4. tirage corr. · French · ISBN 9782225800689
1986 · Prentice-Hall India · ISBN 9780876924068
1988 · Pearson Education, Limited · ISBN 9780133086232
1988 · Prentice Hall · Paperback · ISBN 9780131103627
1988 · Prentice Hall · Paperback · 2nd Edition · ISBN 9780131103627

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1988 · Prentice hall
1988 · Prentice hall
1988 · Prentice-Hall · 2nd ed (International ed.). · ISBN 9780131193710
1988 · Prentice Hall · 2nd ed. · ISBN 9780131103702
1989 · Editora Campus · Paperback · 1ª edição · Portuguese · ISBN 9788570015860
1989 · Pearson Education, Limited · Danish · ISBN 9780131107502
1989 · Pearson Education, Limited · Norwegian · ISBN 9780131107687
1990 · Prentice Hall · ISBN 9780876925966
1990 · Prentice-Hall · Paperback · ISBN 9780131158177
1990 · Hanser Fachbuch · Paperback · German · ISBN 9783446154971
1990 · Hanser Fachbuch · Paperback · German · ISBN 9783446159464
1990 · Masson · 2. éd. · ISBN 9782225820700
1990 · Masson · 2e · UND
1990 · Prentice Hall · Paperback · ISBN 9780131175327
1990 · Prentice Hall · Paperback · ISBN 9780131108592
1990 · Prentice Hall (Higher Education Division, Pearson Education) · ISBN 9780131103306
1990 · Prentice Hall (Higher Education Division, Pearson Education) · Paperback · ISBN 9780131103306
1992 · Mockba · Unknown Binding · 2. Edition · Russian · ISBN 9785279004737
1995 · Prentice Hall · Paperback · Spanish · ISBN 9789688802052
1997 · Masson · 2e éd. · French · ISBN 9782225830358
1998 · Prentice-Hall · Paperback · ISBN 9789197029643
1999 · Prentice-Hall · Paperback · ISBN 9780132583039
2000 · Prentice-Hall · Hardcover · Swedish · ISBN 9780130282774
2000 · Dunod · Paperback · French · ISBN 9782100051168
2002 · Wydawnictwa Naukowo-Techniczne · Hardcover · ISBN 9788320427196
2002 · Wydawnictwa Naukowo-Techniczne · ISBN 9788320427196
2003 · Prentice Hall PTR · Paperback · 2nd Edition · ISBN 9780131148697
2004 · Ji xie gong ye chu ban she · Di 2 ban · Chinese · ISBN 9787111128069
2004 · Wydawnictwa Naukowo-Techniczne · Wyd. 9. · Polish · ISBN 9788320429794
2007 · Wydawnictwa Naukowo-Techniczne · Wyd. 10. · Polish · ISBN 9788320433562
2008 · Pearson Education(singapore) Pte. Ltd. · ISBN 9788131704943
2014 · Dunod · ISBN 9782100715770
2015 · PEARSON INDIA · Paperback · ISBN 9789332549449
2016 · Human Science · Paperback · ISBN 9788993712674
2017 · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · ISBN 9781548817701
2021 · Independently Published · Spanish · ISBN 9798759820611
2021 · Independently Published · Spanish · ISBN 9798473424911
2021 · Independently Published · Spanish · ISBN 9798477795994
2021 · Independently Published · Portuguese · ISBN 9798473390988
2021 · Independently Published · ISBN 9798468216194
2021 · Independently Published · ISBN 9798477772476
Pearson Education, Limited · ISBN 9780133086218

The list may be incomplete, especially for older and non-English editions.

Subjects

Computer science