14 Oct
2010
14 Oct
'10
12:32 a.m.
On 10/14/10 00:11, Folderol wrote:
I recently recommended this one to Philipp:
http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/102/PointersAndMemory.pdf
It's an nice read and I especially like the first sentence:
"There's a lot of nice, tidy code you can write without knowing about
pointers. But once you learn to use the power of pointers, you can never
go back."
best,
robin
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:03:19 +0200
fons(a)kokkinizita.net wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 03:42:46PM -0500, Josh Lawrence wrote:
>
>> Sparing you a lot of useless back story here, but for fun a for
>> personal amusement (NOT for serious work), I'd like to start learning
>> a programming language. If I'm gonna learn one, I might as well learn
>> something that gets a lot of use in the open-source world. So which
>> one to choose? C or C++?
>
> First learn C. Make sure you go to the bottom of it.
> Then learn C++, and select what's useful for you and what isn't.
I concur. Start with C.
a rule of thumb: for GUIs and complex structures: C++ ;for algorithms: C
Apart from some book, the 'manpages-dev' package (section 3 manual
pages) come in really handy. eg `man 3 printf` gives you a full overview
and even example code.
After you grasped some basics, reading other PPL's code is something
that helps a lot.
I've started some small off-list online tutoring; walking through
JACKd's simple_client.c and Fons's jnoise source with Philipp
Ueberbacher recently and can post our conversation if you're interested.
Ciao,
Glad to know I made the right decision!
// Still prevaricating with pointers and struggling with structures :(