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09 Sep 2008, 7:58 pm

I'd prefer something free that's online, but books would work too.



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09 Sep 2008, 8:03 pm

http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/
http://www.cprogramming.com/
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/cclass/cclass.html
http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-tutor.html
http://www.imada.sdu.dk/~svalle/courses/dm14-2005/mirror/c/

The main thing to take away from this: Google is your friend. "Programming in C" gave all of those links even above Wikipedia. They were in the top 5, not counting duplicate links to different parts of the same site.


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09 Sep 2008, 10:12 pm

Me lol!

Lesson one:

void main(void)
{
printf("Hello world!\n");
}

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09 Sep 2008, 11:16 pm

Cyanide wrote:
I'd prefer something free that's online, but books would work too.


C++ primer plus by stephen prata, best for beginners like yourself, he has excellent writing skills and can communicate like no other person I have read.



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09 Sep 2008, 11:58 pm

If you can afford it - A worthy book:

Kernighan, Ritchie - The C Programming guide
ISBN 0-13-110362-8

But as said there is an abundance of free material on the web


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10 Sep 2008, 11:53 am

What about YouTube? Here's a link.



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10 Sep 2008, 7:14 pm

Cyanide wrote:
I'd prefer something free that's online, but books would work too.


check out http://www.gamedev.net/

Tonnes of programmers there.



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11 Sep 2008, 2:06 am

C Programming Language - by Brian Kernigan and Dennis Ritchie

C Primer Plus (5th Edition) - by Stephen PrataC Programming Language - By Brian Kernigan and Dennis Ritchie


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12 Sep 2008, 1:06 am

Quote:
I need a good source to learn C programming


I like the play on wording there. :)


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12 Sep 2008, 1:10 am

Code:
for (i=1; i<=10; i++) {
      printf(i);
}


I believe this is a basic loop that will print the value of i up to 10 starting at 1. That is really close to how it's done in Flash ActionScript (my second language)...

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for (i=1; i<=10; i++) {
      trace(i);
}


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