Novice C usenet group?
Nik Rim
I've got a heap of C tutorials & some books etc but I'm having problems
getting code to compile & need an appropriate forum to seek assistance.
Most of the posts here seem to be somewhat beyond complete novice level - is
there a more appropriate group I should use?
Flame away!
thanks.
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Seebs
> Most of the posts here seem to be somewhat beyond complete novice level - is
> there a more appropriate group I should use?
Not really.
Think about it this way:
If you were struggling with algebra, do you think you'd get a better handle on
it by talking with someone who got a B+ in algebra 1 last year, or by talking
to a college-level math professor?
Yes, many of the questions discussed here are far beyond the complete novice
level. However, there is a big secret:
Everyone here used to be a novice.
Thanks for asking, but in this case, an interested novice is always welcome
to participate.
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Nik Rim
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Thanks for the reply Seebs - we think alike.
When I'm next stuck I'll post a question here.
Cheers
N.
Keith Thompson
> I'm scratching around trying to teach myself C.
>
> I've got a heap of C tutorials & some books etc but I'm having problems
> getting code to compile & need an appropriate forum to seek assistance.
>
> Most of the posts here seem to be somewhat beyond complete novice level - is
> there a more appropriate group I should use?
There's also alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++. As the name implies, it deals
with both C and C++.
comp.lang.c.moderated until very recently had a very slow response time,
but it looks like the moderator(s) have revived it.
There's also comp.lang.c, which is unmoderated (and rather noisy).
> Flame away!
Um, why?
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav
> I'm scratching around trying to teach myself C. I've got a heap of C
> tutorials & some books etc but I'm having problems getting code to
> compile & need an appropriate forum to seek assistance.
I don't know which tutorials and books you have, but there are a number
of them out there that look fine on the surface but are actually
horribly wrong. These include Mark Burgess's online C tutorial (which
seems to have been taken offline since I last looked at it a few months
ago) and anything written by Herbert Schildt.
> Most of the posts here seem to be somewhat beyond complete novice
> level - is there a more appropriate group I should use?
There are plenty of beginner-level questions as well; we try to answer
them politely when they're not too stupid ;) Check the FAQ before
asking (http://c-faq.com/), and when you do ask, remember to include the
complete, exact code you're having trouble with, not just a paraphrase
of an excerpt, as many do; and try to indent it properly so we can read
it more easily.
DES
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Nik Rim
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> "Nik Rim" <N...@BLABBA.COM> writes:
>> I'm scratching around trying to teach myself C.
>>
>> I've got a heap of C tutorials & some books etc but I'm having problems
>> getting code to compile & need an appropriate forum to seek assistance.
>>
>> Most of the posts here seem to be somewhat beyond complete novice level -
>> is
>> there a more appropriate group I should use?
>
> There's also alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++. As the name implies, it deals
> with both C and C++.
Thanks Keith I will have a look at that group.
> comp.lang.c.moderated until very recently had a very slow response time,
> but it looks like the moderator(s) have revived it.
>
> There's also comp.lang.c, which is unmoderated (and rather noisy).
>
>> Flame away!
>
> Um, why?
>
Some of the other (unmoderated) groups I frequent are at times quite
volatile and slowly being killed off by OT posts & "strong" personalities.
thanks
N.
Francis Glassborow
> "Nik Rim" <N...@BLABBA.COM> writes:
>> I'm scratching around trying to teach myself C.
>>
>> I've got a heap of C tutorials & some books etc but I'm having problems
>> getting code to compile & need an appropriate forum to seek assistance.
>>
>> Most of the posts here seem to be somewhat beyond complete novice level - is
>> there a more appropriate group I should use?
>
> There's also alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++. As the name implies, it deals
> with both C and C++.
Yes but the 'gurus' there are used to trying to explain things to
novices. I think it generally would be a better place to post initially.
In addition you might gain by reading what other post.
sg
As seebs has mentioned every one was novice, I do completely agree
with him. I would suggest to start with books/tutorials where you have
example code and just type in that and try to compile it and run it.
Later once you are familiar with the compiling and executing then you
can go through the exercise problems and write down the code on paper
and then type in the code on your system and see if you are able to
compile it and then check if you have got the logic correct after you
execute it. That's the best approach I feel which will make you learn
and understand a programming language.
Happy learning.
-SG
On Sep 11, 9:29 am, Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net> wrote:
> On 2009-09-11, Nik Rim <N...@BLABBA.COM> wrote:
>
> > Most of the posts here seem to be somewhat beyond complete novice level - is
> > there a more appropriate group I should use?
>
> Not really.
>
> Think about it this way:
>
> If you were struggling with algebra, do you think you'd get a better handle on
> it by talking with someone who got a B+ in algebra 1 last year, or by talking
> to a college-level math professor?
>
> Yes, many of the questions discussed here are far beyond the complete novice
> level. However, there is a big secret:
>
> Everyone here used to be a novice.
>
> Thanks for asking, but in this case, an interested novice is always welcome
> to participate.
>
> -s
> --
> Copyright 2009, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.nethttp://www.seebs.net/log/<-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictureshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated!
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