On Thu Feb 17, 2005 at 14:32:14 +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: >Hello Sluggers, I'm having to teach myself some C so I can deal with >debugging problems with C modules used by perl (my primary interest is >the perl scripts, but I'm tired of feeling helpless when C programs >won't build or just die). > >I've found an online university course tutorial which covers basic data >types, operators, functions, prototyping, structures, pointers, >malloc :- >http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/ > It's dated 1999. Should this be enough, any major changes since then, >any recommended tutorials out there ?
That will be fine. Unlike all these new languages C hasn't really changed much. The latest spec was in 1999, however justa bout any tutorial out there will be ok. >Also - am I OK just working with a text editor like Gedit, or do I >really need to use some API to do things properly ? I'm confused by what you mean here. An application programming interface (API) has little to do with a text editor. But basically the answer is yes, any text editor is fine for writing C, however i would recommend an editor that does syntax hilighting. (E.g: emacs, vim, nedit, <thousands of others>). >Recommended newbie-friendly C mailing lists ? There are plently of C coders on this mailing list who would be happy answering questions. >Anything else I should study to do this properly ? - I'm finding things >like foo.xs which are used to generate foo.c for instance, so is there >some tutorial on "typical methods used for generating C sources & >modules" ? I'm not sure what a .xs file is, generally you don't generate .c files, you write them. Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
