Wider ReadingBetaCurators of vintage academic textbooksCurators of vintage academic textbooksBeta
Cover of The C Programming Language

The C Programming Language

Brian W. Kernighan info, Dennis M. Ritchie info

First published 1978

No recent price yet

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.

Wikipedia ↗

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.

Wikipedia ↗

Reading order

Prerequisite: Code (Petzold)

Find a copy

First editions ↗ (opens in a new tab)Signed copies ↗ (opens in a new tab)

First editions and signed copies open a search on AbeBooks, cheapest first. We may earn a commission if you buy through these links.

Editions

The list of editions isn't available right now.

Subjects

Computer science