[Courses] new course: Absolute Beginning C Programming

[Chao Yang]

Carla, 

I'm in. Thanks for bringing this for us. 

Best,
Chao

----- Original Message -----
| 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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| 541-932-4817 PT
| carla at tuxcomputing.com
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