[Courses] [C] Debugging (Re: help me find my C bug? (long))

[Suzi Anvin]

I'm a new programmer, aside from a little HTML and BASIC way back in 
grade school, C is my first language.  I'm pretty new to Linux as well, 
for that matter...  And yes, going step by step does seem to make it 
easier for now, but I tend to learn most things quickly and jump around 
a bit as well, so it is good to have people around to answer questions!
			-Suzi

Mary wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:28:50PM -0700, Suzi Anvin wrote:
> 
>>Hold on... pointers are chapters away yet!  :)  this is like my 3rd or
>>4th day at this!  So far, all the programs I've been playing with are
>>one-function programs and I've yet to have explained to me (by the
>>book) the difference between global and local variables...  doing it
>>the book's way for now, sand I'm really hoping they eventually explain
>>WHY all the examples declare all the variables globally so far.  :)
> 
> 
> That sounds... odd. Local variables in C aren't hard, you can declare
> them at the start of any block (blocks are bracketed by {} braces), and
> their scope is until the end of the block.
> 
> Are you a beginning programmer (C is your first language), or a C
> beginner with other languages. For a beginning programming, going
> through the book chapter by chapter is probably a good idea, if this is
> a new language, it's useful to think of tasks in your other language(s)
> and translate them ("OK, loops in C look like this, so I must be able to
> use them like that...")
> 
> -Mary.
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