Re: I have no programming experience. Would you recommend C?

Enteng wrote:
Hi I'm thinking about learning C as my first programming language.
Would you recommend it?
Also how do you suggest that I learn it?What books/tutorials should I
read for someone like me?

It really depends on your flair. If you want to learn a powerful and
expressive yet simple language, which is also very popular, then C, (or
possibly C++), may be your choice.

If you want to go with a simpler language, perhaps more suited for
learning purposes, with lesser flexibility, perhaps you should consider
Pascal, Python, Haskell etc.

It's more important to stick with a choice, (once made), and get lots
of practise. For C, probably the best book for learning it may be "The
C Programming Language" second edition by Kernighan and Ritchie. This
group and it's FAQ are great resources too.

<http://c-faq.com/> /*
FAQ for this group */
<http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/>
<www.eskimo.com/~scs/cclass/cclass.html>
<www.lysator.liu.se/c/>
<www.le.ac.uk/cc/tutorials/c/>
<www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/> /* ISO C
standardisation group */
<www.dinkumware.com/manuals/> /* C standard
library reference */
<http://gcc.gnu.org/> /*
excellent free compiler collection */
<www.bloodshed.net/> /*
good IDE */
<www.mingw.org/> /*
gcc for windows */
<www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds10-4/firstlang.html> /* about first
choice of language */

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