What are some good books on C?

[php111]

Thank you. I am not a student. I am not a graduate either. Yes, I did graduate from high school. I didn't start college. Sorry to say. I now have to install CH. It's done downloading.

[php111]

btiffin @ Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:46 pm wrote:

I always go with Standard Edition;

http://www.softintegration.com/products/chstandard/download/

And for docs to get going with the console;
http://www.softintegration.com/docs/ch/gettingstart/

If you like what you see, and you have a Student Id number, the free Student Edition ships with a few more goodies. But I'd try Standard Ed, see if it suits your tastes at all.

Cheers

Sorry, I don't know my command line well. I noticed CH was command. If you read cboard.cprogramming, it took 83 posts to write Hello,World with GUI. If anything, I think GUI is easier for me then command.

[btiffin]

Well, Ch is C kinda, C++ kinda, and Shell kinda. All the kinda's may get in the way if you are following more mainstream books. Try the Ch documents. The docs dir comes with a chguide.pdf and chref.pdf. Start with the Guide and work through some of the examples.

I recommend Ch as it is interactive. I find interactive a much faster way of learning but Ch is also interactive C ... so if you

> int *i;
> i = 10;
> *i = 5;

well, expect it to crash your interpreter.

By the way, that sequence says define a pointer to an integer (32 bit on my PC).

Then set the pointer to the value 10 (that would be address 10, probably a dangerous region of Operating System space).

The last line says to stuff the value 5 into the address pointed at. Randomly stuffing 5's into address 10 will usually cause a crash of some strange and exotic nature.

Why did I mention this? Ch is an interpreter but it does nothing to protect you from you or me from me. So...

Cheers

[btiffin]

Re GUI;

Then I'd suggest any of the free Microsoft Visual Studio Express editions.

Umm, http://www.microsoft.com/Express/
But I can't help much after that ... MS pages always break on my Debian boxes. ALWAYS.

I can't dig down deep enough to know is Visual C++ 2005 Express still supports good old C.

And to be honest, for a quick learn (and I may get some flakk from the big dogs for this one), Visual Basic is a fairly powerful and well supported language. And the B in BASIC is for Beginner...

Cheers

[php111]

huh? I pass. I rather GUI. I try MinGW that was said. I don't think, I am pretty sure that MinGW is GUI. I will be really more guides one after another instead of reading the C book. I hate command lines. I use very little. I try to stay away from it.



I just seen your second reply. How is MinGW? Will it support C?

btiffin @ Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:06 pm wrote:

Well, Ch is C kinda, C++ kinda, and Shell kinda. All the kinda's may get in the way if you are following more mainstream books. Try the Ch documents. The docs dir comes with a chguide.pdf and chref.pdf. Start with the Guide and work through some of the examples.

I recommend Ch as it is interactive. I find interactive a much faster way of learning but Ch is also interactive C ... so if you

> int *i;
> i = 10;
> *i = 5;

well, expect it to crash your interpreter.

By the way, that sequence says define a pointer to an integer (32 bit on my PC).

Then set the pointer to the value 10 (that would be address 10, probably a dangerous region of Operating System space).

The last line says to stuff the value 5 into the address pointed at. Randomly stuffing 5's into address 10 will usually cause a crash of some strange and exotic nature.

Why did I mention this? Ch is an interpreter but it does nothing to protect you from you or me from me. So...

Cheers

[btiffin]

php11; More in the MinGW thread. But for now ... check out the Microsoft offerings. There are four or five complete development environments ... Visual C++ (with C I'm sure), Visual Basic, C#, Web Dev ... and others, but I can't view MS pages from Konqueror.

Cheers

[ClayWall]

Sorry for bringing back a somewhat old topic but I have a recommendation for php111, as I know how you feel, online tutorials are good, but it's so much easier start from the very beginning and then go on, but still having a reference.

I have been out of school for a couple years and there was not enough interest in Grade 12 computer science class, so all I left with was Turing.

The other day I bought a book at Cole's Book Store called "C Programming in easy steps". Maybe it's the fact that I know some Turing, but I think it's a great book, as in a day I have been able to make the Dos Prompt output "Hello World" Hahaha! It takes you each step with a description, how-to then an example. It reminds me of a school textbook or how the lessons were shown in computer science class. Best of all this book series comes in other languages too, such as C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic, PHP, PERL ... and others. Sadly I haven't found one on Turing yet. Hahaha!

Do any of the Members have any experience with this book or this series?

[hac]

I realise that this is an old thread but a very good book for learning (plain) C is "The C Programming Language" by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie.

[kendricktamis]

php111 @ Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:54 am wrote:

What are some good books on the pure C language? What I mean by pure C, not C++, or C#, or both. Just C alone so I call it by pure C.

If you really want to learn programming in C then just go to help option in c, Copied it and paste in your C editor. Then try to run it and make some own changes. This is a best way to learn C language but if you want to theory knowledge then you should use "Let us C" by Yashwant Kanitkar. I got this book from my friend who is from India and he is a good programmer. This book usually for Beginner and it contains a small program which helps you to learn c very easy.

[Turing_Gamer]

@ hac: Lol have it right in front of me.
@ Everyone: Was using this for Vex Robotics Programing before I was introduced to C.