Re: learn me c
- From: Andrew Poelstra <apoelstra@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 23:29:18 GMT
"noridotjabi@xxxxxxxxx" <noridotjabi@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
This is all worng.
No it isn't.
newbie wrote:
It has taken me 1 year to learn C. I did this by reading a c++ book,
then reading a generally available c book, then trying to program and
making so many mistakes it is unbelievable (well actually to the c
guru's out there - Heathfield and Thompson - this probably is
believable), and then when I thought I knew c I bought a copy of K & R.
Only after reading that do I now feal comfortable with c.
Absoultely not. There is no reason to learn C++ before C, it will just
confuse the hell out of you. Don't do any of this. The best place to
start isn't even IN a book, its in a simple tutorial. K & R is far to
hard for a beginner to read, but some other books are okay. There are
pleanty of other ways to get confortable with C. Just google C
tutorials. What skill level are you? What do you know now? What do
you want to learn?
K&R is perfectly fine for a beginner to read, although most people will
want to read it slowly. It certainly isn't difficult; it's just very
dense, if anything.
I think unless you are a robot the only way you are gonna learn is by
reading, making mistakes and learning by them.
This is also wrong. You can't exactly make mistakes reading and if you
do you have much bigger problems. In C mistakes are not learned from
so much as made into habits (if they don't generate errors). My
biggest tip if you have a warning FIX IT.
Okay. You said that he was wrong, and continued to "correct" him
with his own idea in different words.
<snipped similar>
Sorry if this is not much help.
Its not, if you want to LEARN C and not just be farmilliar with it.
Right. I often become familiar with stuff without learning it. In
fact, I use it so often that I've no idea how to even use it! Wait...
P.S. If your gonna learn c you must buy a copy of K & R. I think the
fact that I had already read other programming books before reading it
definately helped me because they do assume that you are familiar with
a programming concept.
This is not true at all. In order to learn C you do not have to buy
any books at all, it helps by is not required. All sorts of info is
free in the maigcal world were EVERYTHING is, called the internet.
Hope this helps erase what he just told you.
Nori
Actually, K&R will give you a lot of correct information for a very
low cost. The Internet will give you a whole lot of crap, and it's
impossible for you to sift through it unless you already know the
language.
P.S. You did not learn C in a year, it is not possible to learn the
whole language, and it is less possible to do it in a year. I have
been LEARNING C for the past 4 years and I still have barely touched
the tip of the iceberg. A good understanding, a great understanding
even, is very differnt than KNOWING the whole thing.
N
It's not possible to learn the whole language in a year? There's under
100 keywords and operators, so even at the slow rate of one per day,
you can still learn it in a month or three.
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