Hey Jow Forums,
I am a frequent visitor of this board since around 2010.
I have recently decided to give programming a try. I have taken Friday off work and have devoted the whole of next week to play around a bit with this.
I am planning to jump straight into the deep end, learning C, using the book in pic related and google/jewtube.
I was thinking if I had a little program in my that I could work on it would make it more enjoyable, so if anyone has any recommendations of something that would be a good beginners program let me know.
Or if anyone has any other tips in general.
Thanks
Hey Jow Forums
Jeremiah Thomas
Colton Watson
tips
>use C references/videos if you don't get something, go over it until you understand it completely
>do all exercises in the book
>read and write as much code as possible in C
if you want to do a bigger project, the best scenario is to find something that is actually useful for you, something that you want to create or improve, or some problem you want to solve, and work your way through it. If you have no creativity, maybe someone can post some charts of Jow Forums programming challenges and start with the easier ones. The most important thing is practice, so
>write own code
>read other people's code
>understand it
>improve your own code/thinking
Sites like programming war/competitions might help too
Camden Nguyen
>88
>88
Camden Carter
gets thread
Adrian Gutierrez
C almost only jobs begins microcontrolers programming usually software developer Begin more Java/C#/JavaScript/Python/PHP or Go.
Go begin very close to C(no generics).
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective use C as language teach low level programming.
Jaxon Hughes
Why would you start by learning C? You should start with something more relevant
Jack Wood
that's how you become a pajeet
Liam Phillips
As opposed to being an unemployed autist on Jow Forums?
Gabriel Martin
Thank you for this.
Cooper Scott
learning a language like C before learning java, php, python, whatever, will be much more valuable than starting with a retarded language just because "muh jobs". If one is good with C, learning any other of those other languages will be very easy and quick.
Nolan Sullivan
if you get gud there are actually C jobs due to IoT and logic controllers. there are C jobs near me on clist and i live in northern bumblefuck. at that point though you are almost an EE.
Austin Reed
Yep, this is correct. Python is written in C anyways so that would provide background knowledge and the ability to integrate libraries like Cython
Henry Martinez
How do you figure that? Learning C isn't even that hard you faggots make it sound like it's this juggernaut of a language that thinks incredibly amounts of IQ to understand. It's use as a instructional language for a reason.
There aren't that many jobs with pure C, stop talking out of your ass
Parker Hughes
no there are not, but i see them myself. people like to pretend they don't exist. stop projecting.
Eli Lewis
Im saying there aren't that many, not that they are none whatsoever. My point is that theres no reason to purposely handicap yourself by learning C, unless you're just doing this as a hobby or some shit. Even then i still think it's pointless
David Lewis
I didn't mean to start the fabled 'programming language debate', I was simply hoping for some advice. My choice is made.
Everyone will have a different opinion, so there is no point debating, however the most popular consensus seems to be that learning C before any other language has pretty huge advantages.
Ayden Brooks
its not that C is hard, its just that it teaches important concepts many other languages ignore
Logan Ramirez
Find a computer architecture syllabus and do their projects
Ethan Morgan
After you've learned C you should learn something like C#
Cooper Howard
Thank you, will remember this.
Luis Evans
But that's for pajeets according to the experts here
Nathan Nelson
C is sought after literally everywhere in embedded systems autismo
Logan Reyes
you believe the experts here?
Logan Ortiz
Jace Bailey
K&R is a terrible way to start learning programing especially C.
If you have read the book foreword you would have known that it is aimed toward experienced programmers that will use the book to get the ropes on C while knowing already most of the ins and outs of their profession.
It is anything but a book for a beginner.
You are making a huge mistake and you have only yourself to blame.
Cameron Martin
it has none whatsoever. It's more likely to frustrate you depending on your background knowledge. Mess around with python for a weekend first. It's practically pseudocode.
It's more important for you to understand patterns, structures and abstractions that occur in every (many) programming language(s) than nitty gritty address-level implementation. Knowing how a dictionary (a map) should behave by having seen it prior in python will make implementing it yourself in C much easier.
get fucked pajeet
Austin Harris
What would you suggest for an ABSOLUTE beginner?
Carson Baker
something like cs50 maybe? courses.edx.org
James Ortiz
unironically python
Anthony Allen
all kinds of gets
Jace Torres
in english, doc?
Jason Thomas
nice doubles. check mine.
Camden Allen
>"jewtube"
back to rediit, m8
>If you have read the book foreword you would have known that it is aimed toward experienced programmers
Thats's why they spend a few chapters with things like "how to print numbers" and "what are for-loop and while loop"..
Is this b8 or are you simply retarded?
Henry Garcia
>>"jewtube"
>back to rediit, m8
plebbitor detected
gedafukouttahere.jpg
Aiden Campbell
>I am planning to jump straight into the deep end, learning C,
a.k.a how to not start programming. c is one of the trashiest programming languages plt wise, you shall avoid it at any cost.
Jack Robinson
I’d start with C++ and python. I am in a systems programming class right now that is all in C, and it gets frustrating sometimes even to do the most trivial of tasks (I already have decent experience in python, c++, Java). Can’t imagine how someone who has never programmed before would actually enjoy learning C first.
Colton Butler
Aaron Gutierrez
Seriously, people who can't keep politics out of programming should not post here.
Go back to whatever containment board / echo cahmber you came from.
Jayden Peterson
>who can't keep politics out of programming should not post here.
politics always been part of programming, tard. read the mythical man month or the cathedral and the bazaar.
Isaiah Gray
>I’d start with C++ and python.
Just start with one of the hardest, biggest and most complicated programming language ever and than add one of the most quirky, unideomatic and weirdest programming langauges.
Solid advice here.
Maybe he should learn Cobol and Malborge next?
Eli Collins
Thomas Long
just learn x64 assembly!
Joseph Rogers
Can you get even more meme-tier?
"The mystical man month" is deprecated ever since stufff like iterative processes and kanban. IT management has come a long way since this book was written.
And "the Cathedral and the Bazaar" is deprecated since every major distro became cucked by System of a D.
Have you been living under a rock the last 20 years?
Now please let the grown-ups do the talking and keep your childish SJW-tier politic discussions out of here.
Thanks.
Caleb Davis
>became cucked by System of a D.
>let the grown-ups do the talking
The cathedral and the bazaar is still relevant; how foss development is done hasn't changed since then.
Benjamin Ramirez
Taking advantage of C thread to shill my engine.
Samuel Hill
not sure what that image has to do with politics, buddy. it's just you in a nutshell. now piss off back to plebbit.
Nathaniel Brown
Idk dude, I go to a decent UC and that’s how we do it here and our CS dept has a great reputation. You can easily learn the programming basics, oop patterns, some of the STL or you can be stuck in C trying to figure out which flags to use for printf or wasting time with figuring out segfaults.
What else would you recommend? Java? Where the IDE literally codes for you and you pick up bad programming habits?
Pure python? Too basic. Easier to go from c++ -> python than python->c++
C#? Microsoft’s java
Angel Richardson
>Seriously, people who can't keep politics out of programming should not post here.
Politics is part of programming since its very start when two schools of computing started competing to each other.
Jace Ross
>how foss development is done hasn't changed since then
Sorry to burst your bubble, but today FOSS had been adopted by the economy and is basically a synonym for "free labour". Why do you think Bootstrap or Golang are open source? Because the CEO of Google has been reading "Free software, free society" lately..?
Ahahahahahaha..
Nicholas Hughes
what a fucking retard
Levi Flores
I have a fairly solid hold on C but all JS/PHP webdev garbage gets me seething because of how illogical it is, the apparent lack of structural directions and the near unreadable syntax. Am I retarded?
Jaxson Perez
google "programming problems" and work your way through some lists. Once you're comfortable you gotta pick your own projects otherwise you won't get anywhere.
Sebastian Garcia
>2010
lol newfag
Jaxon Harris
No, hes actually right.
Aaron Phillips
if you say so bud
Xavier Myers
nice, thanks
Kayden Thomas
If you think that shit is bad try looking at the syntax of Mongo db