OT: Requesting C advice
Ian Malone
ibmalone at gmail.com
Wed May 23 18:58:28 UTC 2007
George Arseneault wrote:
> Hey All:
>
> Decided to get back into programing to get my mind out
> of the rut its in. Got an old text book from a friend
> (C: step by step, printed 1990!) and did man gcc to
> find out about the compiler. Then, did info gcc to
> find something I could understand. Overall, it was
> easier then I thought it would be. I didn't have to
> use any of the options on gcc and kwrite with
> highlighting makes the source code much easier to
> read. (back in '85 it was WordStar and two different
> compilers to get the executable.)
>
> Now the bad news... C, C++, gnu, several variations on
> the ISO; not to mention all the libraries, etc. And,
> to top it off, some of the stuff in the book just
> doesn't work. (A program to demonstrate the various
> types of integer variables and how to display them
> with printf(), failed to show any difference with any
> arguments I could find.)
>
plain C:
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/
http://c-faq.com/
Once you know the basics well learning to use
libraries is a case of reading the documentation
and some example code.
Alternatively look at another language like Python.
--
imalone
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