[Techtalk] C programming study group

[Camilla]

Hello all,

just a quick update on the study group:

-there are now 10 people signed up for the study group!
-we're officially kicking off tomorrow, but you're welcome to follow at
your own pace
-course materials will be posted online on Piazza forum
-the Kernighan & Ritchie book C programming book (2nd edition) is available
online (Google is you friend. If you need help finding it, please let me
know)
-I'm trying to get my hands on the other books recommended and will
probably have them by next week so we can have a more varied assortment of
exercises.
-I'm trying to setup an IRC channel for discussions related to the study
group


A note on Git and Github:
-as Alison wrote in her email, knowing git is a big part of participating
in a collaborative project. I've setup a Github organization for this
course (https://github.com/LinuxChix-courses) and all of you are welcome to
create repos and push answers to your exercises. Please email me the name
of your Github account and I will add you to the organization. I'll also
add some resources on using Git to the Piazza course page. If you are a
completely new to git, now is a great time to learn how to use it! Please
get in touch with me or post a question on the forum if you can't get git
to behave!

Please send me feedback and suggestions! This is the first time I'm trying
out something like this and I'm not sure I know what I am doing (at least
not a 100%).

Kind regards,
Camilla





2014-10-03 16:43 GMT+01:00 Camilla <camillamon at gmail.com>:

> Thank you for your suggestions everyone.
> I think learning to use git is definitely a big plus.
> I'll also incorporate information about memory management into the
> materials
> I am planning on posting on Piazza.
>
> I'll be going to my local university library to check out the C resources
> available and start preparing the materials this weekend.
>
> Kind regards,
> Camilla
>
> 2014-10-03 16:31 GMT+01:00 Alison Chaiken <alchaiken at gmail.com>:
>
>> Deborah suggests:
>> > After you master the basics, I look at kernel sources to see how the
>> > language is really used.
>>
>> Most C programs are not Linux kernel and the Linux kernel has many of
>> its own idioms.       I wouldn't recommend kernel code study to
>> someone who isn't specifically interested in modifying the kernel.
>> I have always studied the busybox sources, as we all understand what
>> the functions ("applets") in busybox (e.g "tail" and "date") do, but
>> the code is far simpler and less macro-infested than glibc.
>>
>> I wholeheartedly endorse Bethany's comments about memory management.
>>  Probably the book to which she refers is the same one by Reese that I
>> recommended.
>>
>> If I were starting on such a program of study, I would create a
>> project at github and learn to use git.    Mastering git is as big a
>> project as learning to write C, but any participant in a modern
>> project is going to be familiar with SCM, and git is far and away the
>> most popular.     The study group can then share code and perform code
>> review via the repo, as real project teams do.    The group will learn
>> a variety of useful skills incidentally that way.
>>
>> Having said that, here's my repo:
>>
>> https://github.com/chaiken/
>>
>> There's nothing clever about this code, but a scan will illustrate
>> what I'm talking about.    I've pushed a copy of a few of my solutions
>> to van der Linden problems to the util-scripts repo.
>>
>> -- Alison
>>
>> --
>> Alison Chaiken
>> (650) 279-5600  (cell)             {she-devel.com,
>> exerciseforthereader.org}
>> Some work of noble note may yet be done.
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