Learning C with the Amiga

[mel_zoom]

If you must. I am thinking I will have to start a new thread if I want to ask questions about C coding. This one seems to have gone off all by itself :lol:

[CannonFodder]

mel_zoom wrote:
If you must. I am thinking I will have to start a new thread if I want to ask questions about C coding. This one seems to have gone off all by itself :lol:

What books have you got to read so far?

[mel_zoom]

Well. Nothing amiga specific yet. Just the K&R book - for reference and a self paced book called "mastering standard C". Of course there is also a lot of resources on the web.

Perhaps I can use certain culinary skills to lure a personal C tutor that happens to be fond of spicy food... Except he seems to have vanished under a landslide of work ;-)

[CannonFodder]

Well, I have these Amiga specific "beginners" C books:-

Lattice C Compiler for Amiga Volume 1 (Users Guide, Utilities, Commands, Editor + Disks) (Ring-bound in hard plastic folder)

Lattice C Compiler for Amiga Volume 2 (Debugger, Library Reference, Master Index + Disks) (Ring-bound in hard plastic folder)

The Amiga DOS Manual 2n Edition (Considered the unoffical RKRM) (Ring-bound book)

Lattice AmigaDOS C Compiler: Programmers Reference Manual

All of them are yours if you want them, just make me an offer.

I must add I have a craving for spicey foods too, and can be bribed quite easily with a good curry.

I'm free this Saturday and will be in the north too. ;-)

[amipal]

@mel_zoom

Nobody seems to get this. Im learning for my own interests, to be better qualified to deal with some of the technical jibber jabber I come across in my work and most of all - for fun!

Me too. I'd like to give some programs back to the community, and also develop some apps that are currently missing... And by this I don't mean a web browser or office app! :-o

A lot of SQL is used where I currently work - several implementations used across a range of systems. The one thing they all have in common is that they are overwhelmingly boring!

Yeah, I work with SQL too. Currently developing ASP/SQL implementation using M$ SQL Server.

[Louis Dias]

CannonFodder wrote:

Why use VB to do the job of PL/SQL(T-SQL etc)?

Anyway, isn't this thread supposed to be about learning C?  What point are you trying to achieve by spamming it with off topic crap about how superior VB is?

Start another thread and discuss it there.

Stop being ignorant, I was giving Karlos an example where string concacting becomes useful and saves time.

[CannonFodder]

lou_dias wrote:

CannonFodder wrote:

Why use VB to do the job of PL/SQL(T-SQL etc)?

Anyway, isn't this thread supposed to be about learning C?  What point are you trying to achieve by spamming it with off topic crap about how superior VB is?

Start another thread and discuss it there.

Stop being ignorant, I was giving Karlos an example where string concacting becomes useful and saves time.

Except you didn't.

Can we stick to actually helping Mel now?

[Karlos]

lou_dias wrote:

Stop being ignorant, I was giving Karlos an example where string concacting becomes useful and saves time.

Do you really think I needed an example?

As I'd already said, I either used the C++ string class (which supports concatenation) or found other solutions for C. For PHP, ASP, Java etc., I used the inbuilt concatenation.

The point being that if a language doesn't have string concatenation built in it may be annoying but it's hardly a serious limitation provided it gives alternatives.

[Karlos]

mel_zoom wrote:

Perhaps I can use certain culinary skills to lure a personal C tutor that happens to be fond of spicy food... Except he seems to have vanished under a landslide of work ;-)

Moi?

I'm very easily bribed by the promise of a good hot curry... :lol:

[Hyperspeed]

Make me a curry too before I starve in this wilderness of boring conversation.

:-D

[Karlos]

That's easily the least appetising looking curry I have ever seen :lol:

[bobamu]

it also appears to have a completely nonchalant stickman standing on the rice

 :-D

[koaftder]

Many years back, a girl invited me to come to her place with offerings of food to teach her in the ways of programming. We both worked for a medical supply store, she did data entry, I wrote the software she slaved with. We hit it off and after a while I discovered she had tourettes and months later I was dumped via email. Karlos beware...  :-D

[Steady]

@Koaftder

Is that because her Tourettes was making her say yes all the time when she never was interested, forcing her to use email to actually say no? ;-)

[bobamu]

what a, er, beautiful story   :-D

tho you had to know someone well to discover they had tourettes?

I don't think I've ever met anyone with that, tho in school there was one kid who swore a lot, but I think he just liked swearing

[Louis Dias]

koaftder wrote:
Many years back, a girl invited me to come to her place with offerings of food to teach her in the ways of programming. We both worked for a medical supply store, she did data entry, I wrote the software she slaved with. We hit it off and after a while I discovered she had tourettes and months later I was dumped via email. Karlos beware...  :-D

Are you sure it wasn't the C causing her to mouth off?  When she finally got sick of it, she sent you an email...
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