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There are a lot of books which teach writing good code in Java, C++ etc. There are hardly any (AFAIK) for C. Are you aware of any? Also it'd be great if there were a few recent books in addition to the classics.

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The code in K&R is really, really good to learn from. – BlackJack Sep 26 '11 at 2:24
For those of us that are acronym-challenged: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language – Robert Harvey Sep 26 '11 at 2:33
Hi Plumenator, book recommendation questions are off-topic here unless they are asking for a canonical book about a specific programming problem. How to write well-designed programs in C isn't the scope of what we allow. Rather than asking for a book on how to learn it, consider just asking about specific questions you have directly here and on Stack Overflow. – user8 Sep 26 '11 at 2:50
@BlackJack I disagree, the code in K&R is very poorly written and continues plenty of questionable coding practices. The book is simply too old, good programming practice was invented later, when the book was already written. – Lundin Sep 29 '11 at 11:23

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There are a few out there though I can't really vouch for any myself.

Test Driven Development for Embedded C

Design Patterns for Embedded Systems in C

The last one I found is a fair bit older than the others but appears to be more general as well.

Practical C Programming, 3rd Edition

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The Practice of Programming by Kernighan and Pike is an excellent book for learning the elements of style in C, C++ and Java. They cover algorithms and optimization as well. It does not cover structuring large programs, though.

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