Hi, I see you already bought the book, perhaps an online primer could help you too. I have dabbled in writing a C primer on Hackepedia at
http://www.hackepedia.org/?title=C_Primer You can read it, and you can modify it and add other parts if you wish. The C examples have a line number in front of them ala w.r. steven's books it helps explaining what each line does in that regard. To make them work use awk '{$1= ""; print;}' or something. And my advice regarding learning C is that you not only read source code but also write your own and learn from your mistakes by comparing. Cheers, -peter