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C and C++ :

• C Programming
• GNU C and C++ manuals:
  • at the MIT AI lab (cpp/gcc/g++/g++FAQ/libg++/gdb)
  • at Virginia Tech (cpp/gcc/libg++/gdb)
• C and C++ style guides : Christopher Lott maintains this short, plain page with links to style guides, coding rules, and discussions from USENET.
• A tutorial on pointers and arrays in C : Ted Jensen wrote ten chapters about this difficult aspect of C, drawing on his experience discussing pointers and arrays in forums like FidoNet's C Echo and USENET's comp.lang.c newsgroup. He blunders rarely ("int (char *xptr)[COLS];"), and the writing is consistent; if your books and Steve Summit's comp.lang.c FAQ didn't help, perhaps Ted can.
• Learn C/C++ Today : Vinit Carpenter has moved the list of tutorials and books from his Linux PC to cyberdiem.com.
• The C Side : Derek Harper's wide, but shallow tree caters to Microsoft Visual C++ programmers who are beginning to get out more.
• The Ground Cero Guide To C : Henrik Aasted Sorensen's highly PC-specific, introductory tutorial explains a C program from the first line on in an informal dialogue between reader and author.
• C & Unix : Jon Campbell's plain ASCII course notes (he threatens conversion to LaTeX and HTML) are slanted towards students with a Modula 2 background, but will be understood by anyone. The author's experience in teaching programming languages and software engineering provides a solid foundation on which even difficult concepts are explained clearly and quickly.
• The C Standard Library and Selected Help on ANSI C : Ross Richardson from the University of Tasmania, Australia has collected this brief Standard C quickreference. It's not what you want as a first introduction, but mostly correct - and the library quickreference is great for refreshing one's memory of what the order of parameters for qsort() was, or wheter it's CHAR_BITS or CHAR_BIT.
• C Programming Reference : Looking for an online C programmer's reference, Martin Leslie found only tutorials; consequently, he attempted to fill this gap in online C documentation himself. By now, Gary M. Greenberg has stepped in to help maintain the material.
• Introduction to Computing : Martin Brown at the University of Southampton uses C in his Introduction to Computing. The course materials, converted from their TeX source, make a reasonable tutorial; they are accompanied by slides, example programs, and two assignments.
• Programming in C : Converted automatically from its TeX source, David Marshall's HTMLized set of lecture notes is most notable for its use of bitmaps to display program examples set in a bold, proportional font.  The writing is bad; the examples contain obvious errors.
• C Programming : Two introductory tutorials; the old course has been rewritten to employ ANSI C.  Smaller than "Programming in C," these are easier on the examples, better formatted, and more evenly written, although they still omit much and blunder occasionally.  I'd stick with K&R.
• ANSI C Programming : Phil J Willis' introductory ANSI C tutorial.  Parts of it are not yet fleshed out, parts of it are wrong; but the writing is above average.
• Introduction to C Programming : by Marshall Brain, a small set of excerpts from the same author's book on Motif programming.  It relies strongly on a working knowledge of Pascal and, in addition to the usual blunders, misspells both "Kernighan" and "Ritchie."
• Help on C : On the Cambridge University Engineering Department's help server, Tim Love maintains an archive of original (mostly plain ascii) texts, including the inevitable converted TeX tutorial.
• An introduction to C programming : Brian Brown's tutorial, complete with problems, solutions, and form­based multiple choice tests, is part of a set of courseware documents from the New Zealand Central Institute of Technology.
• C in the Free On­line Dictionary of Computing : Both the general dictionary and the entries on C and neighboring topics are excellent.  It's a place to get lost in while browsing, make new connections, and pass on some of one's own knowledge to others.
• The C programmer's pages : Rutger van Bergen likes C and has written a number of original documents detailing aspects of the language: its relationship to Pascal, Unix, C's history, pointers, header files, etc.
• Tower Floor -- C Programming : One location in Anthony Thyssen's charming maze of towers and floors is dedicated to a loose collection of ASCII documents on (frequently Unix-specific) C programming.

Java :

• The Java Tutorial
• All About Java(tm)

Object Oriented Programming : (not yet available!)

Perl :

• The Perl Language Home Page
• Perl Programming Workshop
• Maths' Perl Page
• Perl/Tk

TCL-TK:

• Tcl/Tk Project At Sun Microsystems Laboratories
• Tcl/Tk Information
• TCL WWW Info
• Perl/Tk

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