Diving into C

Hello people.

Quick question for you pedagogues out there...

I'm planning on learning some C as an introductory language, having done just a bit of basic and html in my youth, and having knowledge of algorithms from mathematics.

Does anyone have any pointers to some good books or sites for C (books preferred)?
By "good" I mean neophyte-friendly and easy to read.

Okay technical question. I I have:

    char a[5][5];
    char b[5][5];

How do I swap these two arrays so that `a` points to the data in `b` and vice versa?

Okay technical question. If I have:

    char a[5][5];
    char b[5][5];

How do I swap these two arrays so that `a` points to the data in `b` and vice versa?

>>21 I'm sure I"m wrong; but i would come up with a third array (c) and swap the contents of b into it using a for loop, then swap the contents of a into b in a second loop, then finally use a third loop to swap the contents of c into a.

Again, I'm a noob and I'm sure there's a much more efficent way of doing this; but that's how *I* would do it (knowing what I know now).

Too much work. They're just pointers:

char *p = a;
a = b;
b = p;

>>24
foo.c:7: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
foo.c:8: error: incompatible types in assignment
foo.c:9: error: incompatible types in assignment

>>25
I may be wrong but it may have to be

char **pp = a;
a = b;
b = pp;

Sorry, I was mistaken. a and b are constants pointing to the stack, so >>23 was in fact correct.

For large arrays it might be easier and faster to allocate memory and swap the pointers instead.

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>>5
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