[Courses] new course: Absolute Beginning C Programming

[Adrienne J Davis]

Make that +2. Definitely could use this.  

Cheers
Adrienne

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On 28 Jan 2012, at 17:06 , Ehud Kaldor 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
>> 
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>> carla at tuxcomputing.com
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