i learned python (through free online tuts /youtube) myself and have decided to try something more difficult.
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if any else has made this "jump" or learned C i would like to know what is difficult about
do you know what's hard? starting to read that book rather than reading it.
>>54652857
the only difficult part is 'getting' pointers and memory management
all programming languages are easy to learn, but using them correctly and efficiently is another thing..
>>54652857
Also learned most of what i know in free tuts
It isnt hard, except you have to understand the pointer thing, but in my opinion it wasnt that hard to learn
>>54652857
chars are ints
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string are actually arrays of ints
>>54653597
Everything that is computed is a number anyway.
C doesn't treat characters any differently, it just doesn't hide the truth.
A computer always stores characters as numbers and always stores multiple characters as multiple numbers.
>>54652952
Jesus christ i know what you mean, Those GD pointers...
I even have that book in OP's pic and the example in it appears to be wrong.
They have it as:void swap(int x, int y)
when i believe it should be:void swap(int *x,int *y)
where swap(&a,&b); is passed to it.
Unless im just retarded, But the example in the book doesn't compile for me.
>>54652857
"C" isn't difficult. People find "C" difficult because they're retarded and haven't learnt ot properly. A simple guide to mastering "C" is understand it before using it.
>>54655566
Yeah seems wrong to me too, maybe they used some homebrew compiler which didn't give a shit at all
>>54655566
Doesn't compile?
Well, that's why you have a debugger.
Read it.
I'm interested in starting to learn programming with C prog language. I have 2 books I saw /g/ recommending: King's C Modern Approach and this K&R pic related in OP's. I'm inclinated to think that King's would be better for a total and stupid beginner cuz it has more pages, is that right?
Also, what would be good sites and open source software to read C code from so I can learn it properly?
>>54656946
Go with the K.N. King book.
Mix it up with C Primer Plus by Stephen Prata.
But do the exercises in King's book, they're the only ones worth doing.
As for sites, the CS50x course on edx.org teaches C.
