[Techtalk] C programming "course"

[Raven, corporate courtesan]

Heya --

Quoth Michelle Murrain (Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:52:51PM -0500):
> OK, I want to (re)learn C Programming. A thread started on issues which 
> lead to me talking about "courses" or groups that get together and 
> basically learn the same stuff. The idea is that we have more of a 
> structure to learn it than doing it ourselves, but we don't have to go to 
> class and pay tuition.

	I'm up for that; I suck at C.  I've been slowly improving with
the help of a few more knowledgeable friends, but I'd love to do
something like this.
 
> Book: How about starting with the classic, Kernighan and Ritchie? Another 
> possibility: Practical C Programming (O'Rielly). Other book ideas?

	I have the O'Reilly, but would be willing to buy the other if
the group would prefer to work from that.
 
> Pace: Kinda slow. I'm really busy, so I can't do a whole lot too fast. Like 
> 2 chapters a week, maybe?

	Depends on how large the chapters are; I'm pretty busy too, but
I would really like to do this.
 
> Also, if others have other ideas for courses, that would be cool, and all 
> we'd need is point people to be the coordinator for individual courses.
 
	I don't have the time right now, but would happily coordinate
/help run one on networking or security in the future, or participate in
one on Perl or shell scripting.  

Cheers,
Raven

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