[Techtalk] C programming study group

[Camilla]

Hello everyone!

I'm really happy people are interested in C! I've been trying to really
master the language for a long time, but I always give up... This fall I am
trying to follow along with MIT's Operating Systems Engineering class and
knowing C will be quite handy.

Let's look at some practical issues:

*What study resources is everyone using?*
I don't know of any decent online materials for studying C (apart from
LinuxChix courses) so I am following Kernighan and Ritchie's book. If
fellow LinuxChixxors want to recommend good books, I could go to the local
uni library and try to check them out and post exercises and notes on the
Piazza page for everyone to share.


*How are we going to structure our study group?*
Should we have a loose syllabus which we follow? We could agree on a weekly
topic and a set of N mini coding exercises and then post and discuss them.
Would this be a good format or would people prefer something less
structured? Kernighan & Ritchie cover the following topics in their book:

1. Basics
-variables and arithmetic expressions
-for statement
-symbolic constants
-character IO
-arrays
-functions
-arguments
-char arrays
-external vars and scope

2. Types, operators and expressions

3. Control Flow

4. Functions and Program Structure

5. Pointers and Arrays

6. Structures

7. Input and Ouput

8. UNIX System Interface

I am not very experienced in C, so perhaps advanced C guru chixxors could
weigh in on the above study plan.
Anyway, let me know what you think so we can get started on our C journey!

Regards,
Camilla





2014-09-30 0:10 GMT+01:00 Bonnie King <b at bonnielking.com>:

> I'm interested!
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Camilla <camillamon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Svaksha and Deborah,
> > thank you for responding!
> > I have setup a Piazza group http://piazza.com/linuxchix/fall2014/cs101.
> > I don't know if you want to use it, but I have previously used it for
> > programming intensive classes and found it
> > to be better than Moodle for sharing code and answering questions. The
> > enrollment code is *cs101 *.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Camilla
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