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- From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
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- Subject: Re: Learning C
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.215812.939@sequent.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:58:12 GMT
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- References: <Steve_Mech.04q2@bearsden.UUCP> <gilligan.728160893@camelot>
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- In article <gilligan.728160893@camelot> gilligan@camelot.bradley.edu (Edward Henigin) writes:
- >In <Steve_Mech.04q2@bearsden.UUCP> Steve_Mech@bearsden.UUCP (Steve Mech) writes:
- >
- >>What I would like to know is how I should go about learning C.
- >
- >First off, watch your margins.
- >
- >Secondly, I would recommend going to your local community college and
- >taking a class on C. Should be pretty cheap, and you will probably learn
- >things that you may or may not learn on your own.
- >
- >Thirdly, get a hold of other people's sources, and look at theirs, and
- >try to understand why they did what they did. This has proven invaluable
- >to me in learning just about anything.
- >
- >Fourthly, RTFM. You should get about 10 pounds in docs for your compiler,
- >and you can learn a lot by leafing through them, because you will pick
- >up things you may later want to refer back to and use as reference in your
- >projects.
- >
- >Fifthly, and finally, get projects of your own. Learning by doing, I say.
- >
- >ed
- >--
-
- Cheaper still, and more effective...
-
- Pick up the book "learning C" by Augie Hansen. Yes, it's a
- Microsoft Press book, but it includes a tutorial disk with sample
- programs and a well thought out approach that applies almost 100%
- to the Borland compiler, in terms of teaching the language and it's
- use.
-
- You will still have to RTFM the Borland Manuals, but you will find
- them more usefull after taking a brief trip through this course.
-
- ...Paul
-
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