[Noisebridge-discuss] Seeking info about Intro to C Programming class

[ashish makani]

My suggestions :

1.If you like video lectures, here is a harvard course where all the video
lectures & assignments, are available online for free.
They are a bit long, but are pretty engaging , in both content & delivery,
IMHO.
http://cs50.tv/

2. If you are trying to learn programming , and don't care about the
language, MIT's introductory programming course 6.00 is also a great place
to start.
http://mit600.mit.edu/blog/course-info/
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/video-lectures/

All the Best,

cheers
ashish


On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Brian Morris <cymraegish at gmail.com> wrote:

> To me, the advantage of K&R is that it is small and can work / review
> through it quick.
> It is maybe hard to find newer books which go into relevant topics which
> are not huge and heavy.
>
> For me, C++ is an advanced language to work with, tools have been developed
> to make it easier to work with large projects, eg cmake and QT but not
> everybody uses and there are other choices. It was the first OO language and
> IMHO compromise between C and the higher level OO languages such as Java and
> Python, which have become standard for learning OOP.  Also most other
> languages have OO extensions.
>
> C is close to the metal as they say and that may be kind of interesting.
> Also fast. Depending on your interests you could find possibly an
> application oriented book to go along with K&R. In general many langs have a
> foreign function interface (FFI) for speed or hardware interface which
> people mostly use C functions. So you can look there at small functions that
> do specific things. To give you some motivating or interesting examples.
>
> What is your motivation for learning C ? Mine was originally for numerical
> programming (because required for a job), then later as a bridge to C++
> (which I found disappointing, wish I had gone with Python).
>
> One approach to learning a new programming language which may work for you
> is to translate something. For instance take a Python function that is
> central to your/ some code and rewrite it in C, simply plug it in and see if
> it works, and see if it is any faster. I don't know how common this is in
> Python (being new to it) but it is pretty ubiquitous in Perl (which can have
> slow downs pretty bad).
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Erik Schneider <eriktrips at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi I'm kind of new but not entirely but enough so that I don't know if
>> this is the right place to ask but since they do not have a list of
>> their own that I can find:
>>
>> Is anyone from the Intro to C Programming class reading who could
>> answer questions like could I start attending next week?
>> And if yes:
>> Is the class using a text or texts, and if so what is/are the text(s)?
>> And is there a particular thing the class is working on for next week?
>>
>> If you can answer my questions but it would be more polite to email me
>> the info than to use this list, then:
>> eriktrips at gmail.com
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Erik JM Schneider
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