Anyone have a books recommendations or web resources to learn C programming on the Amiga? Focus will be for AmigaOS 4.x. This would be for someone with very high level knowledge of computers but a beginner as far as programming is concerned.
there are several good resources i can recommend. the first is, as nicholas points out, is a good, general purpose C language book. i remember using 'practical c programming' from o'reilly back in the late 1990s and loved it. highly recommended.
then for learning C on amiga, again, nicholas pointed out the excellent amiga c manual. it's a bit dated, but still useful, especially if you want your tools to be backwards compatible with AOS3, MOS, and AROS. nearly the entire contents of the RKRMs are online -- and being updated to reflect changes since AOS2.0 -- at
http://wiki.amigaos.net/index.php/DeveloperDoc:Main. a good place to ask questions would be os4coding.net or the developer and SDK forums on support.amigaos.net.
lastly you'll want to download the AOS SDK at hyperion-entertainment.biz, which includes all of the autodocs and plenty of additional documentation to crawl through. i highly, highly recommend codebench (
http://www.codebench.co.uk) as a development environment. if you'd prefer to roll your own, other good options are golded and stormced v5, recently released by alinea.
lastly a good thing would be to come to amiwest this year. starting the wednesday before the conference is a developers seminar that lasts through friday. steven solie and other developers are there to answer questions, and the classes are very useful. plus you can stay for amiwest and booze^H^H^H^H^H find out about new developments in the classic and next-generation amiga space.
-- eliyahu
