Re: Newbie
- From: luser-ex-troll <mijoryx@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:16:18 -0700 (PDT)
On Mar 23, 5:35 pm, Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demun...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Echo Weep <thewandering...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
I would like to begin this post by stating that it is my first usenet
post.
Welcome!
I wish to learn C and thought that this would be a good place to
start. I have minimal programming experience and am interesting in
learning C as my first language. There are numerous reasons I wish to
learn C however the two main reasons are; I am using a unix based
operating system and two I want to learn a relatively low level/mid level
language (as I believe I will end up learning more). I already know a
little bit (very minimal) including the basics of pointers, arrays,data
types etc..
If anyone could point me in the right direction it would be most
appreciated
Having a modern printing of K&R is most useful, and the comp.lang.c
FAQ covers many gotchas in the language. When you are familiar enough
with K&R, then you're probably well-enough equipped to start referring
to the C standard(s) - for the closest approaches to those, grab
"n869.pdf" and "n1256.pdf".
Sincerely
Echo
P.S sorry for the badly written post (its 12 am in Toronto and i have
school tomorrow)
You're doing better than several of the regulars!
btw what age did most of you start learning to program?
1982, aged 11, BASIC on some mini the size of a large wardrobe
with no real security at all. I still remember my first day at
the console, after waiting 5 minutes at the start of the lesson
for the bugger to boot up, and the 'hello' prompt I was offered.
I forget what response my 'hello' elicited, but I clearly
remember the response to my next command - 'bye'. 10 minutes
later, after the machine had been rebooted, the 24 of us began
our class again... (I have no idea what the machine was - if
anyone has any vague clue what it might have been, please fling
random suggestions in my direction. I seem to remember the
command to log in was something like "login 8,8", where 8 was
my terminal number.)
I didn't meet C until ~1987, but a multi-floppy-disc compiler
on a single-floppy Atari ST was no fun at all, and I didn't
do anything with it. However, when I got access to a PC with
TurboC on it, my programming life changed dramatically!
Wow! I'm kinda surprised that BASIC keeps showing up on lists of first
languages. I got my first computer around 1988 at age 10, a 286; and
around the same time there was a programming elective in school that
taught BASIC on Apple IIE's. The school lab also had a Mac Plus and a
386. I moved to Pascal and burned out. I rediscovered programming (and
C) in 1996. It seems mid-teens learning basic in school is right on
track. You might be able to talk your teacher into giving you extra
credit for submitting C answers in addition to VB. Maybe not, but
asking may lead to other useful conversations.
--
lexit
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