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Our channel topic was huge, hence the birth of this site. Here is the original:
C Programming
- PASTE more than 3 lines to http://codepad.org/ -- see also PasteScripts
- INTRO: (See NOTES below.)
- FAQ: http://www.c-faq.com/top.html
- NETWORKING: http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
- IPC: http://beej.us/guide/bgipc/
- GDB: http://www.unknownroad.com/rtfm/gdbtut/gdbtoc.html
- GDB: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~benjasik/gdb/gdbtut.html (dead link, archived here)
- GCC: http://www.osborne.com/products/0072224053/0072224053_ch01.pdf
- SUSv4: http://www.unix.org/version4/
- UNIX FAQ: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/programmer/faq/
- FloatingPoint: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
- OOP: http://www6.uniovi.es/cscene/CS1/CS1-02.html
NOTES
A number of people have commented that the INTRO link is of poor quality (and it's dead now) so we are looking for a replacement. Proposed alternatives so far:
- GNU C Programming Tutorial: http://crasseux.com/books/ctutorial/
- Steve Holmes (ex-Uni Strathclyde), C Programming: http://www.strath.ac.uk/IT/Docs/Ccourse/
- C Programming class notes: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/cclass/cclass.html
- An Introduction to C: http://cprog.tomsweb.net/cintro.html
- More C Programming class notes: http://www.plover.com/misc/c/110/
- Programming in C, UNIX System Calls and Subroutines using C: http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/CE.html
Quotes
- Standard C does not know nor care about colors, mice, windows, keyboards, networks or any other system specific things. If you want help with something like that, you would (hint) want to tell us what OS, compiler, tools or libraries you are or intend to use/abuse.
--Provided by pragma_ from author unknown
Additional materials
- Books, including K&R and TAOCP
- Code Snippets for common topics/problems
- C gotchas C_gotchas things that trip up beginning programmers
- Software, including compilers, IDE's, tools and utilities
- Usenet, including groups and notables
- Web resources, including C of Peril and reference sites
Stuff that should be avoided
- Books written by Herb Schildt.
It's not that we hate Herb, the problem is that his prose is easy to read but his knowledge of C is limited. See http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/schildt.html and/or http://www.seebs.net/c/c_tcn4e.html.
- C Tutorial: http://gokmen.selcuk.edu.tr/tutor/progdil/c/
Several channel regulars have declared this horrible.
- C Tutorial: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/c.htm/printable
Another horrible one....
- Books written by Yashwant Kanetkar including Let US C, Working with C and Data structure through C. The problem with his books is that, though easy to read, they contain a lot of factual errors. They do not address the fact that certain aspects of C are implementation dependent.
- Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours: http://aelinik.free.fr/c/index.html
It's difficult to find a page without an error....
- C For Dummies: Same as above.
- C Language Course: http://www.studytonight.com/c/
Same as above.
- Learn C The Hard Way by Zed A. Shaw: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
Too many factual problems and a presentation that gets you to do things wrongly before being shown how to do it correctly, and not even always then.
- Build Your Own Lisp: http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/
Bad C and terrible rationales.
- Understanding and Using C Pointers by Richard M. Reese: Horribly written, conflates language specification and implementation, and describes concepts confusingly and/or wrongly in many cases.
- Beej's Guide to C: http://beej.us/guide/bgc/output/html/singlepage/bgc.html
Full of mistakes.
- Anything written by Harry H. Chaudhary. Most pages have at least one technical error, and the writing is plain awful to boot.
- Wikibooks C Programming: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C_Programming
Many errors, lack of understanding of simple concepts.
- The C tutorial on http://www.tutorialspoint.com/
Too many mistakes to enumerate.
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