Here are some resources for C programming. I sent some of these earlier, but I dont think it made it to the listserv archive. For people who are interested in C: Good reference on C string functions: http://www.cppreference.com/stdstring.html GDB (GNU Debugger) tutorial http://cs.ecs.baylor.edu/~donahoo/tools/gd There are several good tutorial on the net a listing of various sites can be found at: http://www.1001tutorials.com/c/index.shtml http://www.le.ac.uk/cc/iss/tutorials/cprog/cccc.html C Frequently Asked Questions http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html http://www.strath.ac.uk/IT/Docs/Ccourse/ http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-tutor.html Here are two C books that are not too expensive: - The "classic" C reference the K&R book: i.e. Kernighan and Ritchie's: The C Programming Language, the ANSI version - it has an ansi C stamp on it. this is a reference book, and is also a good to have in you library. I still have mine (and use it) that I got in 1988. - Topics in C Programming, Revised Edition by Stephen G. Kochan, Patrick H. Wood this is more of a tutorial, good if you need to brush up on pointers and so on. This one is available as a used book from amazon.com. For people who forgot java there is a Good Java Book (AND IT IS FREE - downloadable): "Thinking in Java" by Eckel. www.bruceeckel.com