14 Oct
2010
14 Oct
'10
5:17 p.m.
Excerpts from Robin Gareus's message of 2010-10-14 00:32:47 +0200:
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
And I really appreciate this :)
Sadly I have had little time at my hands so far, it will hopefully get
better this weekend.
To the original poster:
I can't tell what's the best way to start. I'm interested in C because
it's practically needed for audio processing and because it's the
predecessor of many common languages. Also, C is a good match with lua,
which is a scripting language that I really like and dabble with from
time to time. But besides that I have to learn Java for university,
whether I like it or not :)
All I can really tell so far is that for a small set of things a certain
kind of language is required, for everything else it seems to be very
much a matter of preference.
Regards,
Philipp
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 :(