On 6/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:38:11PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:54:22PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:08:54 +1200 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm sure that this question has been posted previously, but I reckon it's > > > safe to assume that the answer will not be perennially the same. > > > > > > I want to check out some C programming resources, but I do not necessarily > > > want to learn how to programme. I'd like to be able to look at source code > > > from time to time and have some clue of what it's about (and hack it). > > > > > > So, I don't really want to buy a book, I thought that there must be some > > > decent online resources / tutorials that people on this list have found > > > useful (and would recommend). > > > > > > I've got a fairly handy bash / TCL / PHP knowledge and done a little Python, > > > so I'm not starting from scratch. I could probably foobar my way through a job > > > interview. > > > > > > TIA, > > > Michael. > > Not online, but there's no substitute for Kernighan and Ritchie. However, would it be a better idea to look into c++ instead? > > > > And I'm a committed ( in all senses of the word ) C man. > > > > Steve >This time with 2 corrections!: Well the linux kernel is written in C, (Linus did say that writing kernel code in C++ was a "bloody stupid idea"). ^^^ Historically C++ compilers were deemed by the linux kernel crowd as untrustorthy and so I think that's why many apps for linux ended up being written in C too. Again, I'm not trying to learn how to programme C, I want to learn *about* C. John: I want suggestions from people who've found a reference to be *useful*, I don't want random Google results. So, do any of your 10 last posts in this thread come from personal experience, or is your atavism still "fuzzy"? ^^^ Michael.
I'm biassed of course, but do have a look at my 'Notes for C programmers' I received over 3000 thankyou letters and have been told that it was/is the standard C tutorial in many Indian Tech. Universities. It's available locally at http://shell.clug.org.nz/~chris/sawtell_C.shar --Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
