Ah well thank for the advice. The trouble with a book is actually trying to get the time and space to read it properly! A course forces you into an environment where you can learn, and a good one will engage you and hold your interest for more than half a chapter, both major draw cards for me.. pretty much why I'm looking for one actually..
And Matthew I can appreciate your concern but I'm afraid I'll be compelled to write C, imo there's no comparison for the sort of application I need to write, but if you succeed in your quest, then it'll benefit me soon enough too :) On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Matthew Palmer <mpal...@hezmatt.org> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:20:58AM +1100, Raphael Kraus wrote: > > Maybe not quite what you want to hear (and I know it's a text, not a > > course), but "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Richie has to > > be the definitive text. > > Having a copy on my shelf, and having learnt C programming from it's > hallowed pages, I almost feel like a heretic for saying this, but here > goes: > I don't think that K&R is a good book for learning C programming these > days. > It was written in a simpler, gentler time, when the occasional buffer > overflow meant a segfault, not a pwning. There are plenty of examples in > there that are downright dangerous for a programmer who doesn't know the > full repercussions of their code. Also, a few of the idioms used aren't > really commonly used any more, having been superceded by better > alternatives > over the years. > > I don't know of any books that are a good, safer, replacement for it, > though. > > Anyway, you shouldn't learn C any more. The less people who know it, the > higher consulting fees I can charge in 20 years to fix problems in legacy C > programs (see also: "The Cobol Effect"). > > - Matt > > -- > "You could wire up a dead rat to a DIMM socket and the PC BIOS memory test > would pass it just fine." > -- Ethan Benson > _______________________________________________ > coders mailing list > coders@slug.org.au > http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders >
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