Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 07:53:53 GMT From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: OT: C Programming (a reply) Message-ID: <E146pgf-000HE9-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
Subject: Re:OT: Learning C at home
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 07:40:58 GMT
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Sorry for the OT noise, but it's all you guy's fault -- with the broad
range of knowledge this list is suffering from ;,)
I have Turbo C 2.1 and djgpp's gcc port on a DOS box; and gcc on FBSD. I
have "Practical C Programming" by Steve Oualline (O'Reilly & Associates,
Inc) and "The C Programming Language" by K&R (1st ed. I'm sure), as well
as few HTML C tutorials.
Tip 1: get the 2nd edition of K&R. It is still the definitive book
on "C". There were significant language changes made between K&R "C"
and ANSI "C". For example, the handling of struct's in assignment and
parameter passing, the addition of "enum" etc etc.
I use my DOS box for learning C about 60% of the time. I want to be able
to apply what I learn to both environments. I'm confused about ANSI C,
Standard C, UNIX C -- should I prototype functions/should I not -- etc etc.
Which should I learn?
Tip2: Don't be too worried about this. Learn ANSI "C" and use prototype's.
"C" is a very unforgiving language, you can do most anything in it, but
it also gives you plenty of rope to hang yourself with. Prototypes can
protect you somewhat from "C"'s lack of strong type checking.
Tip3: Whether you use DOS or UNIX for basic "C" practise probably doesn't
matter much, a program to compute the Fibonnaci Series will be the same
on either of them ! However DOS of course is hugely primitive in terms
of it's file system, system services etc. So when you start doing
more exotic things, say system programming type activities, DOS is not
going to be much use if you want to do UNIX programming.
Tip4: I would go for UNIX if I were you as a training ground. You then
have immediate access to squillions of lines of "C" programs, and a very
rich set of tools for "C" development. Besides which I presume you had
to buy Turbo C, GCC is just there.. like weather :)
Is there a c-questions e.g. , mailing list? Tia...
I am sure there is, don't know the name of any, but shouldnt be hard to
find.
main()
{
printf("Good luck!\n");
return 0;
}
Cliff
p.s. Download and study the "hello" GNU program ..
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