<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gabrbedd@gmail.com">gabrbedd@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Josh Lawrence wrote:<br>
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Sparing you a lot of useless back story here, but for fun a for<br>
personal amusement (NOT for serious work), I'd like to start learning<br>
a programming language. If I'm gonna learn one, I might as well learn<br>
something that gets a lot of use in the open-source world. So which<br>
one to choose? C or C++?<br>
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C is easy to learn and it's possible to master it very quickly. Many languages (esp. C++) have been based on its ideas and syntax. I recommend starting there. Good books will have titles like "C for Dummies" or "Learn C in 21 days."<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I might also add that one very useful resource on linux is the GNU libc manual. For some types of projects, you won't need anything more than this:<br><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/">http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/</a><br>
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