[Courses] new course: Absolute Beginning C Programming

[Jane Taylor]

I'm in and I hope I do better than my Fortran class all those years ago. I could only get one line of Mickey's face to appear!!!

Thanks,

Jane

--As this is a thumb-made email any misspellings are a natural by-product of trying to type too fast on my iPhone. :-). 

On Jan 28, 2012, at 6:24 PM, Rio <rio.arbis at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm in.  Been trying to learn in the past but didn't progress much.  Hoping
> this time Carla's coaching will make a big difference on me.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Rio
> 
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Ehud Kaldor <ehud.kaldor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> +1
>> I'm in.
>> On Jan 28, 2012 3:21 PM, "Carla Schroder" <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey all,
>>> 
>>> I've been going back and refreshing my moldy old C coding skills, which
>> is
>>> a
>>> golden opportunity to launch a Linuxchix course for coding and C
>> beginners.
>>> 
>>> Why C, you may ask? Why not something new and shiny like Python or Ruby
>> or
>>> PHP
>>> or some rock star codey thingy? I'll tell you why-- because C is a
>>> fundamental
>>> language and it gets into gnarly stuff the glossy newcomers shine over
>> and
>>> hide
>>> away.  If you develop a decent grasp of C you will have useful knowledge
>>> that
>>> will serve you well for many different languages, and you won't fall into
>>> dumb
>>> attitudes like "It's ok to be inefficient and sloppy because everyone has
>>> quad-
>>> core computers anyway" or "I have no idea why it's doing this, but oh
>> well
>>> who
>>> cares."
>>> 
>>> I'll use gcc, the GNU compiler collection. There are many compilers and I
>>> don't want to teach many compilers, I want to give literal specific
>>> examples
>>> with gcc instead of forcing you to figure it out on your own. gcc is fine
>>> and
>>> when you get to know it fairly well then you can try out others, and
>>> engage in
>>> fun flamewars over which one is best.
>>> 
>>> Absolute Beginning C Programming starts Sunday Feb. 5. All you have to do
>>> is
>>> subscribe to the Courses list. See you there!
>>> 
>>> http://mailman.linuxchix.org/mailman/listinfo/courses
>>> 
>>> Carla
>>> 
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> Carla Schroder, ace Linux guru and howto author
>>> 541-932-4817 PT
>>> carla at tuxcomputing.com
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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