[Courses] [Newchix] new course: Absolute Beginning C Programming

[Jane Taylor]

I'm in!!!  Just subscribed to the courses list!!

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 2:58 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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