[Tutor] OT What's next

[Amadeo Bellotti]

thank you soo much Alan i have Sams teach yourself C in 21 days fr starters
is that any good?

On 11/30/06, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
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> "Amadeo Bellotti" <amadeo.bellotti at gmail.com> wrote
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> > step two sites to learn anyone know where i can look
> > up c programming for linux?
>
> Ah! Now, if you'd said you were talking about a
> Linux PC then there would be no question. C is
> the only way to go.
>
> The Linux documentation project has loads of stuff about
> programming for Linux, but you need to learn C first.
>
> My personal choices for books are:
> 1) The original C Language book by Kernighan & Ritchie
> One of the finest programming tutorials ever written, great
> for core C but useless for the library functions.
> 2) C The Complete Reference by Schildt. A very good tutorial
> that also makes a good (albeit DOS oriented)  reference manual.
>
> Online I haven't seen anything outstanding for C but
> then I haven't really looked at beginners tutorials because I
> could already program C before the web was invented!
>
> One thing - Don;t get sidetracked into C++. Its a whole
> different ballgame, much more complex and unnecessary
> if you want to go low level.
>
> HTH,
>
> Alan G.
>
>
> >
> > On 11/29/06, Terry Carroll <carroll at tjc.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, R. Alan Monroe wrote:
> >>
> >> > > Pure assembler on a PC involves a huge amount of work for even
> >> > > the most trivial task.
> >> >
> >> > Some useful assembly tips here:
> >> > http://www.grc.com/smgassembly.htm
> >>
> >> I never wanted to actually program assembly on the PC, but I did
> >> want to
> >> understand it (actually, I wanted to understand the Intel x86
> >> architecture, and there's no better way of doing that than learning
> >> the
> >> assembly language for a machine).  I read Jeff Duntemann's
> >> "Assembly
> >> language Step-by-Step,"  http://duntemann.com/assembly.htm , and
> >> found it
> >> very useful, although I didn't actually try any programming.
> >>
> >> I'm an old mainframe assembler language hack from way back in the
> >> IBM
> >> System/370 days (although in my last development job, I wrote more
> >> in
> >> machine code than in actual assembler), so I didn't really need or
> >> desire
> >> to do the practical aspects of actually writing x86 code; but I
> >> felt that
> >> would have been a good book to get me there, had that been what I
> >> wanted.
> >>
> >> A couple of years ago, I took a course in which I built a
> >> rudimentary
> >> computer around an Intel 8031 chip; and when I say "built," I mean
> >> built.
> >> It was a couple dozen components on a breadboard, with about only
> >> about
> >> 2Kbytes of memory, if I recall; I soldered or wire-wrapped every
> >> connection.  You really learn an architecture when you do that.
> >> not that
> >> I remember much of it anymore, two years later.  Not a route I
> >> recommend.
> >> I needed a few credits to fill an obscure educational requirement,
> >> though,
> >> and this was a fun way to do it.
> >>
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