Learning C

Learn C

[being a Harbour programmer, the next stop (and a great favour you might want do to yourself) is to learn C language, if not already have done that. In fact, there are good reasons why you have to do it.] [*]

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• C Programming wikiBook
• C Programming
• C Programming Reference Guide
• The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (old and perhaps "rusty", like all "Commandments", still useful though.)
• Notes on Programming in C
• Modern C (pdf) (recommended, particularly for local off-line use)
• ISO C documentation (PDF document)
• C libraries indexed
• C Programming tutorial
• Beej's Guide to C Programming (somehow lengthy/wordy, yet quite good --and amusing.)

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• C-language list of (free) books (by Free Ebook Foundation.)
• awesome-c ("A curated list of C good stuff.")

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• GCC online documentation (official gcc online docs)
• GCC Command line Options. (See also this)
• 15 Most Frequently Used GCC Compiler Command Line Options

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C-source code snipets etc.

• "Where is some C code I can study and learn from?"(0)

• "Where is some C code I can study and learn from?"(1)

• "Where is some C code I can study and learn from?"(2)

• "Where is some C code I can study and learn from?"(3)

• "Where is some C code I can study and learn from?"(4)(zip file)

• ...programming exercises and solutions in C

• The Snippets Collection (outdated, yet useful somehow)

• Rosetta Code

• CCAN (also in GitHub)

• C Tutorials (with some interesting C-samples)

• C Algorithms (see also the many forks of this repo).

• GitHub Gist 1 and 2

• C Programming Examples and Tutorials

• C Programming Examples

• C Programming Examples (2)

• lemoda.net (a lot of samples and other «worth-to-read» C-stuff.)

• GeeksforGeeks - A computer science portal for geeks (seems good!)

• Pastebin.com (see and this)

• Codeblog

• Learn C - Free Interactive C Tutorial

• Exercism

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C Q&A

• Frequently Asked Questions (comp.lang.c)
• Infrequently Asked Questions (...)
• stackoverflow
• reddit

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C-pointers. The great hassle (🚵...while trying to "ride the bicycle!") 😈

• C Pointers Fundamentals
• Pointers --Cower In Fear!
• The C book (chap: Pointers)
• A Tutorial on Pointers and Arrays in C
• What are the barriers to understanding pointers...
• Pointer declaration
• Pointers and const Type Qualifier
• Function Pointers! (see also and here)
• Notes on Data Structures and Programming Techniques

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Miscellaneous (likely interesting) articles about C-language

• How it all started...
  • The Development of the C Language (by Dennis M. Ritchie)
• ...and how it might end!
  • The long goodbye to C

• Improving and Fixing C Code

• Format-string spefifiers (printf() etc.)

  • Remark: Under MinGW gcc, in order to enable/utilize "new" C99 length modifiers like f.e. hh ll z, must the _ISOC99_SOURCE feature test macro been defined, since it's not defined by default; this can be done either by adding a line #define _ISOC99_SOURCE on top of source code (preferably before any #include <headerfile>) or by using -D_ISOC99_SOURCE command line switch. e.g.: gcc src.c [-options...] -D_ISOC99_SOURCE

• C Operator Precedence and Associativity Chart

• What is the difference between a definition and a declaration?

• Printing all environment variables in C / C++

• What is the difference between #include <filename> and #include “filename”?

• What is a mutex? (along with a ... hilarious, yet plainly understandable answer!)

• The ternary (conditional) operator in C

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_{[«... intuitively speaking, C might be regarded as being for the programming languages, exactly what the ancient Greek is for most western human languages: constantly influencing, while vigorously concise and rigorously severe; a diachronic, almost atavistic point of reference, each one in their own area.
C is the constitutional "back panel" in the software evolution, indeed » (~08/2017)]}