About programing, a general question
James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 22 03:42:56 UTC 2010
On 12/21/10 6:18 PM, Matt Smith wrote:
> On 12/21/10, James McKenzie<jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> On 12/21/10 1:46 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:46 PM, William Case<billlinux at rogers.com
>>> <mailto:billlinux at rogers.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am not a programmer, but I wanted the answer you seem to want. How
>>> does the damn thing work? More explicitly:
>>>
>>> How does human understandable information get converted by a machine
>>> into electrical data; then store it; may or may not, transform,
>>> compare,
>>> and/or relocate the data; and then re-present the data as information
>>> meaningful to humans?
>>>
>>> I found the answer in "The C Programming Language" by Brian W.
>>> Kernighan
>>> and Dennis M. Ritchie. This book is such a basic that it is often
>>> referred to just as K&R. If you try to simply use this book as a
>>> tutorial for the C language it is too difficult. Almost every
>>> sentence
>>> contains a new concept. But K&R and 'C' are closest to the metal.
>>> It's
>>> description and particularly its appendices are used by programmers
>>> mainly as a reference. It really is a text on how to best write
>>> code so
>>> that the compiler can use your 'C' code by translating it into machine
>>> language. It is also, therefore, basic instructions for compiler
>>> writers
>>> on how they have writer their compilers.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sure, how to get this book? Is it available online somewhere?
>> Not legally, anywhere. However, the Second Edition is available from
>> Amazon and other book retailers. It is not very expensive. It would
>> cost me more to mail you the extra copy I have to you than it would be
>> to buy it (even in the United States.)
>>
>> James McKenzie
>>
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> Can we please get c++ involved in the discussion, it runs circles
> around C on all levels..
>
How? This is for a BEGINNER programmer who wants to learn about proper
structures and other programming 'stuff'.
Yes, once you learn PROPER programming, you can and should move onto
Object Oriented Programming. For this, I HIGHLY recommend learning
Java, not C++. Write once, run anywhere (just about.) C++ is write
once, compile a dozen times, fix hundreds of 'bugs'. You end up with
twelve different executables and possibly dozens of software versions.
James McKenzie
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