On 10/14/10 00:11, Folderol wrote: > On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:03:19 +0200 > fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 03:42:46PM -0500, Josh Lawrence wrote: >> >>> Sparing you a lot of useless back story here, but for fun a for >>> personal amusement (NOT for serious work), I'd like to start learning >>> a programming language. If I'm gonna learn one, I might as well learn >>> something that gets a lot of use in the open-source world. So which >>> one to choose? C or C++? >> >> First learn C. Make sure you go to the bottom of it. >> Then learn C++, and select what's useful for you and what isn't. I concur. Start with C. a rule of thumb: for GUIs and complex structures: C++ ;for algorithms: C Apart from some book, the 'manpages-dev' package (section 3 manual pages) come in really handy. eg `man 3 printf` gives you a full overview and even example code. After you grasped some basics, reading other PPL's code is something that helps a lot. I've started some small off-list online tutoring; walking through JACKd's simple_client.c and Fons's jnoise source with Philipp Ueberbacher recently and can post our conversation if you're interested. >> Ciao, >> > Glad to know I made the right decision! > > // Still prevaricating with pointers and struggling with structures :( I recently recommended this one to Philipp: http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/102/PointersAndMemory.pdf It's an nice read and I especially like the first sentence: "There's a lot of nice, tidy code you can write without knowing about pointers. But once you learn to use the power of pointers, you can never go back." best, robin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
