I am doing in this email what I have thought was a bit shallow - that is,
waiting until someone posts some helpful information and then critiqueing it
instead of weighing in at the start to help the original person.  Please
take the following as a late input that does not take away in the slightest
from the helpful post by Don Hyde.  It's just that Don's post spurred me to
action.

While I have taught from K&R I don't think it is all that it has been hyped
up to be. It is quite unintelligible to a new person who is starting on
their own. As a tutorial it sucks the winds out of Africa.  There are
several books that explain things much better and also address the different
standards issues.  However, as Don points out, the likelihood of finding K&R
in your native language is much greater than anything I will come up with.
It is the seminal text on C.

Try these for a much more fun way of learning C - I'm at my home desk right
now, so I don't have ISBNs for everything, but you can get them from Amazon
or ask me and I'll get you them when I get to work :

1.  C the Complete Reference (an Osborne text) - Examples for all C
commands - really quite nice - doesn't go step by step.
2.  C for Dummys (laugh, then read it - it is quite good for a new person)
get it at:
http://www.pascoinfo.com/books-dummies/section-c/index.htm
3.  Programming in ANSI C, 1994, ISBN 0672203396, $23.95. Good for beginners
(used as a school text in the past)
4.  Programming Microcontrollers in C, ISBN 1878707140.  $23.95. Mostly
Motorola stuff, but concepts apply to PICs - might want to make this your
second book.

The last two entries I took from Peter Anderson's site. He has a section on
the C language (www.phanderson.com) which might help once you get going. You
can download the Borland compiler for free and practice what you read in
these books. Verson 2.0 is available from the Borland site as a free
download (or was - haven't looked recently).

You can get a free C tutorials on the web - mostly you get what you pay
for - but it is worth a shot. Just search on "C " and tutorial.

Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: Don Hyde <DonH@AXONN.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: TUTORIAL


> The classic Kernigan and Ritchie for C (the original documentation) is
still
> a great tutorial for the C language in general, and by this time certainly
> it has been translated into just about every human language around.  It
> certainly says nothing specific about PIC, since it was written before
they
> existed, but the PIC-specific things you will probably have to extract
from
> the compiler docs anyway.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mitchel [SMTP:mitchel@TASK.COM.BR]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 7:55 PM
> > To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > Subject:      TUTORIAL
> >
> > Please, Does anybody know where can I find a tutorial about C language
(or
> > pascal language ) for PICmicro ? May be any compiler....
> > If possible, step by step...
> >
> > I don't speak english, Excuse-me ...
> >
> > Beste regards.
> >
> > Mitchel Monteiro