Starting out with C

[dgwilliams]

Hi all C programmers

I want to learn c and was wondering if anyone could give me some places to start and good resources to use.

Also could anyone tell me what c is good for. for instance java is good with objects and creating appletts. But what is the power of c. and what is it mainly used for.

 

[Salem]

http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/cclass/

http://www.geocities.com/tom_torfs/cintro.html

http://www.howstuffworks.com/c2.htm

http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/C/Tutorials/

http://www.swcp.com/~dodrill/controlled/cdoc/ctutor.html

> Also could anyone tell me what c is good for.
It's especially good at the lower levels - like writing operating system (eg. Linux) for example.

C is also highly portable. Almost every environment which you're ever likely to use will have a C compiler, whether its your wrist-watch, mobile phone, gameboy, games console, PDA, PC or supercluster.

Whenever a chip maker releases a new processor, the first language to be ported to it (after assembler) is usually C.

> and what is it mainly used for.
Writing operating systems, services and applications in any of the domains listed above.

 

[dgwilliams]

thanks that is a great place for me to start