>I'm confused by what you mean here. An application programming interface > (API) has little to do with a text editor. d'uh... I meant IDE or programmers workbench. thanks for responding Benno, James, Trent . cheers Rod
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 14:39 +1100, Benno wrote: > 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 > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
