[Techtalk] C programming study group

[Miriam English]

A few times I've begun getting into C, but something else always 
interrupted. A few years ago I found "Learn C the Hard Way", available 
free online at http://c.learncodethehardway.org/ as web pages and 
eventually for sale as an ebook (the Ruby ebook sells for about $3, so I 
expect the C one will have a similar pricetag). But once again I didn't 
get far before I had other stuff I needed to do. It always seemed to me 
a great way to learn because it is full of examples and exercises and I 
learn best by doing, so the "hard" way is really, for me, the easy way 
-- probably the only way for me to learn a computer language (I've 
learned many that way). I'm waiting til I can set aside clear time to 
learn it, perhaps early next year.

Learn C the Hard Way is designed as a C course the author, Zed Shaw, has 
been gradually writing. Chapters 48 to 50 in which a tiny virtual 
machine is designed and made are not online yet, but will eventually. 
Everything else is up there now.

Zed is available (email address is given on the site's main page and 
book's preface web page) for questions and feedback. There is also a git 
repository which Zed invites people to fork. Zed now conducts online 
courses too (currently for $29).

Best wishes,

	- Miriam


On 12/10/14 06:18, Camilla wrote:
> @Andreas: true! I will try to look for it, but so far the bookstores in my
> area haven't had a very good C book selection. Oh well, I guess there is
> Amazon...
>
> @Deborah
> Apologies for the delay! I put up Piazza sign-up instructions here
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/13vqtr5phLEl0mpBIbwu7zeuoDon9dQjW905uM3ysO94/edit?usp=sharing>.
> I
> will also send updates to the course list, because I know many people
> (myself included) don't like to sign up for things they'll only use once.
>
> Kind regards,
> Camilla
>
> 2014-10-08 0:25 GMT+01:00 Andreas Berglund <email.lists81 at gmail.com>:
>
>> On 2014-10-05 19:46, Camilla wrote:
>>> 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'd recommend adding The Standard C Library by PJ Plauger to your
>> reading list at some point. A thorough familiarity with the library is
>> very useful
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