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I found that, after learning the basics of the language via K&R or a similar book, the best way to get a good understanding of C and its weird corner cases and

I found that, after learning the basics of the language via K&R or a similar book, the best way to get a good understanding of C and its weird corner cases and eccentricities is just to go through the comp.lang.c FAQ page. http://c-faq.com/index.html http://c-faq.com/index.html It's pretty comprehensive, and I found the level was pretty good for a "not total newbie, but still not familiar with the subtilties" level that can be kind of hard to find resources for.

0x09 10y ago
This, the standard document itself (it's not very long, and drafts are freely available), and the C tag on stackoverflow (often contains comprehensive answers by well informed people) are my recommended resources. http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.pdf http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.pdf http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c A good way to casually browse SO for interesting information is filtering by questions in the last <time period> and ordering by votes. http://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=votes&q=%5bc%5d%20is%3aquestion%20created%3a2016-04-01..2016-05-01 http://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=votes&q=%5bc%5d%20is%3aq...
blaisio 10y ago
Making a blogging engine in C would be very informative (though difficult).
- ktRolster 10y ago
  If you build it on ribs2 (with garbage collection) it wouldn't be too hard.
  - yoklov 10y ago
    I'm not sure if I think writing C with a garbage collector is a good exercise for learning the subtleties of the language.
    - ktRolster 10y ago
      If you figure out how the garbage collector works (it's a C library) then you'll learn :)
- aastronaut 10y ago
  i think fefes cms is written in C... [1] [1] http://www.fefe.de/poweredby.html http://www.fefe.de/poweredby.html
  - majewsky 10y ago
    Eeyup. A 2009 version is archived at https://erdgeist.org/cvsweb/Fefe/blog/blog.c https://erdgeist.org/cvsweb/Fefe/blog/blog.c The best part is that where stores his posts. SQL? Nope. NoSQL? Nope. Plain text files? Nope. Fucking LDAP. [1] [1] Source: http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a8d61c27 http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a8d61c27
- spc476 10y ago
  Not terribly difficult. I wrote my own blogging engine in C [1] which I still use [2] (it also uses this library I wrote: [3]). Last modification I made: support for gopher [4] for that "retro feel." [1] https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog [2] http://boston.conman.org/ http://boston.conman.org/ [3] https://github.com/spc476/CGILib https://github.com/spc476/CGILib [4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/
- snissn 10y ago
  it would be pretty easy to make one using c pre processor

0x09 10y ago

This, the standard document itself (it's not very long, and drafts are freely available), and the C tag on stackoverflow (often contains comprehensive answers by well informed people) are my recommended resources. http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.pdf http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.pdf http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c A good way to casually browse SO for interesting information is filtering by questions in the last <time period> and ordering by votes. http://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=votes&q=%5bc%5d%20is%3aquestion%20created%3a2016-04-01..2016-05-01 http://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=votes&q=%5bc%5d%20is%3aq...

blaisio 10y ago

Making a blogging engine in C would be very informative (though difficult).

ktRolster 10y ago
If you build it on ribs2 (with garbage collection) it wouldn't be too hard.
- yoklov 10y ago
  I'm not sure if I think writing C with a garbage collector is a good exercise for learning the subtleties of the language.
  - ktRolster 10y ago
    If you figure out how the garbage collector works (it's a C library) then you'll learn :)
aastronaut 10y ago
i think fefes cms is written in C... [1] [1] http://www.fefe.de/poweredby.html http://www.fefe.de/poweredby.html
- majewsky 10y ago
  Eeyup. A 2009 version is archived at https://erdgeist.org/cvsweb/Fefe/blog/blog.c https://erdgeist.org/cvsweb/Fefe/blog/blog.c The best part is that where stores his posts. SQL? Nope. NoSQL? Nope. Plain text files? Nope. Fucking LDAP. [1] [1] Source: http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a8d61c27 http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a8d61c27
spc476 10y ago
Not terribly difficult. I wrote my own blogging engine in C [1] which I still use [2] (it also uses this library I wrote: [3]). Last modification I made: support for gopher [4] for that "retro feel." [1] https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog [2] http://boston.conman.org/ http://boston.conman.org/ [3] https://github.com/spc476/CGILib https://github.com/spc476/CGILib [4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/
snissn 10y ago
it would be pretty easy to make one using c pre processor