So I want to learn C. I already know C# and Python as well as some general programming knowledge, so I'm not a complete beginner. I figured I'd start by learning C89 with K&R. Should I go with a different book or learn a different version of C? I don't have anybody else to ask as nobody I know uses C.
Learning C
Angel Foster
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Jeremiah Butler
Just use K&R until you can apply it.
And then a book about contemporary C, there's a lot of nice books.
Oliver Adams
C Programming: A Modern Approach, 2nd Edition is a good supplement
Daniel Watson
+1 to this
Jeremiah Miller
Book is expensive, anyone got a good PDF?
K&R is good, but it's section on pointers is terrible.
Zachary King
>section on pointers is terrible
why?
Asher Martin
Not explained well and rushed examples. Would recommend looking at other resources when you get to that section.
Nolan Ortiz
OP here, I just downloaded it from this link (gen.lib.rus.ec
Evan Murphy
I am with very solid understanding of asm and x86 cpu, is there a book that will suit be better than k&r?
more technical in details?
Mason Cook
#include
int main() {
int i;
int j;
int k;
int counterJ = 5;
int counterK = 1;
char star = '*';
for (i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
for (j = 0; j < counterJ; j++){
printf(" ");
}//end for j
for (k = 1; k
Elijah Johnson
If you have experience with C, your best bet is just to read an introduction like K&R and then study/write a decently sized program.
Oliver Gray
I'm a moron, I mean experience programming in a C-type language.
Jason Clark
learn C99 instead
Ryder Stewart
Learn C99. C89 is only used for legacy purposes and compatibility with shit compilers like MSVC. C99 is very similar and just a lot nicer to work with. You could also go for C11, but it's just C99 with some minor improvements.
Caleb Evans
Does anybody know where I can get those joke O'Reilly covers in a decent resolution?
I want to get a few of them printed to hang in my office.
Austin Robinson
for (i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
}
why
Kayden Myers
Well you see, a for loop is when you want to iterate something.
Kayden Harris
"C" in a nutshell, Prinz.
Thank me later.
Jaxon Martinez
To draw a six-line asterisk pyramid? Admittedly, his indenting is pretty crap though, and quite to many blank lines too.
Landon Edwards
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One of the best programming books I've read.
Wyatt Hill
The C Pocket Reference by the same author is also quite good, handy little reference.
Jacob James
unrelated but are there more of these?
Juan Wright
Google "o rly books"
Cooper Walker
are you asking why he didn't just print the line out 6 times or are you asking why he didn't declare i in the for loop?
Caleb Perez
I can't find them anymore, but I used to have 'coding drunk' and 'web development with assembly'
Asher Bennett
oh here it is
Brody Lee
Yeah. The one I recommended references the standard libs and pretty much every GCC compiler command-line parameter that you'll ever need.
Robert Barnes
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Zachary Brown
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K&R comes with a reference manual.
Ryan Taylor
because pointers are such a nebulous subject
Eli Mitchell
I hear hardly anyone uses C99/C11 though, and there's opinions that C was fucked up in the later revisions. Dennis Ritchie himself supposedly wasn't too happy with the changes.
James Martin
most of the bell labs people aren't happy with anything though
C99 is fine, it's old enough so almost every compiler supports it
C11 is just asking for compatibility issues
Hunter Robinson
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Colton Lee
I thought I was literally the only person on the planet that liked this textbook. It fucking owns
Jeremiah Jenkins
Take C#
Remove classes, generics, inheritance, interfaces, attributes, properties all that shit
Remove garbage collection
Remove batteries included libraries
Replace using libraries with include headers
And you get C.
Zachary Morris
C Primer Plus or C Programming: A Modern Approach?
Grayson Robinson
That's quite an oversimplification, to say the least. C surely has some low-level features which C# simply doesn't have for various reasons.
Adam Murphy
>wanting to learn C
It's almost like you don't want to enjoy life...
Dominic Martin
There was an irc channel that stopped being active today apparently that was dedicated to learning C using K&R
Something like that should get started up again. I was enjoying it
Ian Clark
>39 KB
agreed.
Anthony Brooks
excuse me
Luke Phillips
Don't know why the 39 KB thing showed up, I didn't type it. Either I had a seizure or something fucked up.
Jeremiah Wood
huh
were you a part of it?
Justin Baker
No, but learned C from K&R. It just sounds like something that would be fun to do, or at least better than 80% of the things on Sup Forums. I'm kinda interested to see what people are up too.
Colton Cox
It was fun while it lasted. The problem is that nearly everybody flaked out immediately and the remaining few of us only lasted a couple more days