George Arseneault wrote:
Hey All: Decided to get back into programing to get my mind out of the rut its in. Got an old text book from a friend (C: step by step, printed 1990!) and did man gcc to find out about the compiler. Then, did info gcc to find something I could understand. Overall, it was easier then I thought it would be. I didn't have to use any of the options on gcc and kwrite with highlighting makes the source code much easier to read. (back in '85 it was WordStar and two different compilers to get the executable.) Now the bad news... C, C++, gnu, several variations on the ISO; not to mention all the libraries, etc. And, to top it off, some of the stuff in the book just doesn't work. (A program to demonstrate the various types of integer variables and how to display them with printf(), failed to show any difference with any arguments I could find.)
plain C: http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/ http://c-faq.com/ Once you know the basics well learning to use libraries is a case of reading the documentation and some example code. Alternatively look at another language like Python. -- imalone
