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Jeff Ondich  
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 More options Apr 28 2010, 8:04 am
From: Jeff Ondich <jond...@carleton.edu>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:04:15 -0500
Local: Wed, Apr 28 2010 8:04 am
Subject: Re: [NORLUG] Re: What is the best way to program in C?
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I think that if your goal is to learn C, then a Unix-based system is
easiest.  Just get a text editor (with syntax coloring) and a terminal
window and edit/save/compile/run, edit/save/compile/run... So for this,
Linux and Mac beat Windows (unless you install cygwin on Windows, which
would give you the same effect).

But here are a couple other thoughts.

-- What's your real goal?  Is it "learn to program" or "learn to program
because I have this particular project I want to work on for myself" or
"learn to program because I have an iPhone app idea" or something else?
Your choice of starting language may depend on higher level goals.

-- Regardless, you'll want to have a pet project of some kind that
motivates your study.  Doing sample exercises is fine, but for me, those
samples were always driven by my interest in writing software to support
my fantasy baseball league.  I've moved on from baseball stats lately,
but I still always make sure to have a project I'm fired up about when I
learn a new language.

Good luck.

Jeff Ondich

Steven Carver wrote:
> Thanks, I'll take a look. Is it besr to program in C on Windows or
> Linux or OS X? Because I have all three...

> On Tuesday, April 27, 2010, Jay Kline <j...@slushpupie.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Steven Carver <steve19...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Hi, new part of the mailing list. I live in Farmington, and I'm trying to learn a bit of programming. I did some reading and discovered that it would be best to learn C, C++, Objective-C... So where do I start? There are so many resources that I'm overwhelmed. I do get the impression that you guys are programmers, considering the current python thread. Thanks for the help.

>> The best way, in my opinion, is to start with the basics.  Pick one of the three you have there and find a good book to teach it, and just sit down and try to work with it. Which you pick is a matter of personal taste, but I think C is a good place to start. For C, there is a great book:  C Programming Language (2nd Ed.) by Kernighan and Ritchie (ISBN: 0131103628)  Those are the guys who came up with the language, and its a pretty well respected book.

>> Jay

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