Books by author: Steve Maguire

After you get past the irony in this book's title, you will find a good presentation of a number of typical mistakes that C programmers make and some good suggestions of ways to avoid them. This book isn't as good as McConnell's Code Complete, but it's not aimed at the same audience. Where McConnell focuses on design and programming techniques in a language-agnostic manner, Maguire focuses entirely on C examples. Of course, many of Maguire's techniques can be transfered fairly easily to other languages, but you have to do that translation yourself.