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C Language Resources

105 points by RBerenguel 16y ago

nonUser 16y ago
Website is down :(
- dwc 16y ago
  HN + Reddit, apparently too much for the server. Maybe it'll respond properly later. EDIT: I just refreshed and it worked.
svag 16y ago
Today I was trying to find some resources(sites, books, etc) in order to keep up to date with some programming languages. One of them was C and I found the following site: http://www.di-mgt.com.au/cprog.html http://www.di-mgt.com.au/cprog.html Just to mention that the last update of this page was on 1 January 2010.
mrerrormessage 16y ago
What about "The C Programming Language"? Didn't that make a lot of us better programmers by teaching us how to use C?
- agentultra 16y ago
  It's a classic and certainly taught me a lot. It's also one of the more slim programming books on my shelf. I've considered handing to to friends interested in programming. Simply because I hand them a Python book with thousands of pages and I can see them visibly cringe. I also find the K&R style quite readable. :)
  - RBerenguel 16y ago
    I also love K&R's style, it is one of my favourite books about programming
  - gtani 16y ago
    Konig's Traps and Pitfalls, another slim book http://www.amazon.com/C-Traps-Pitfalls-Andrew-Koenig/dp/0201179288/ http://www.amazon.com/C-Traps-Pitfalls-Andrew-Koenig/dp/0201...
- AndrejM 16y ago
  Yes. But I'd also recommend getting Stephen Prata's C Primer Plus. It covers C99, and talks about more complicated topics such as multiple pointer indirection and the preprocessor.
- forgotAgain 16y ago
  I learned from the original edition back in the 80's. When I saw the price at Amazon I was surprised. The list price is given as $67. The Amazon price is $48. The book's a classic but the pricing seems excessive given that the edition is 22 years old.
- rosstafarian 16y ago
  yeah k&r is great i remember going through it my first time and being amazed at how elegant the example code was. Really a great book
spacemanaki 16y ago
This looks like it's only online resources, but I'm reading C Interfaces and Implementations, and it's great. I wish I had read it earlier. Even though I don't use C much at work, it's quite an interesting step from K&R.
sfphotoarts 16y ago
It's fascinating watching the HN community ebb and flow around topics, there's this collective conscious that discusses programming languages (mostly) and some days the tide takes us to a heavily Pythonic view of the world, and this week we're having a c revivalist movement. I thinking writing a system to identify topics on HN day after day and try to correlate this with other events might be interesting, is it for example all reactionary, is it some form of herding, does it follow topics on other similar forums, or just pseudo-random. Back to the topic. There is one definitive C resource, K&R.
- mmastrac 16y ago
  K&R doesn't cover c99, which makes C far less annoying to write in, IMHO. Unfortunately I don't have a good, comprehensive reference for c99 to offer up myself.
  - nitrogen 16y ago
    The C99 standard itself and corresponding Wikipedia pages are quite useful. The gcc manual is also a handy reference for determining whether a particular gcc feature is standard compliant. http://www.google.com/search?&q=filetype%3Apdf+iso+9899 http://www.google.com/search?&q=filetype%3Apdf+iso+9899 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99
    - reirob 16y ago
      Funny that only 2 commercial compilers are fully supporting C99 standard: IBM Rational logiscope >= 6.4 and Sun Studio.
  - parenthesis 16y ago
    The excellent, C: A Reference Manual (5th edition) covers C99. http://www.careferencemanual.com/ http://www.careferencemanual.com/ http://www.amazon.com/Reference-Manual-Samuel-P-Harbison/dp/013089592X/ http://www.amazon.com/Reference-Manual-Samuel-P-Harbison/dp/...
saqi 16y ago
This list is full of valuable links. Thank you all!
nitrogen 16y ago
I would recommend adding the Linux Kernel Coding Style guide to the list of recommended reading for C programmers. You don't have to follow its advice, but seeing some of the reasoning behind the policies therein can improve your appreciation of the language details. Original version (text): http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle Formatted version (HTML): http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/view/hacker/part2/hacker/coding-style.html http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/view/hacker/part2/hacke...

105 points by RBerenguel 16y ago

nonUser 16y ago

Website is down :(

dwc 16y ago
HN + Reddit, apparently too much for the server. Maybe it'll respond properly later. EDIT: I just refreshed and it worked.

svag 16y ago

Today I was trying to find some resources(sites, books, etc) in order to keep up to date with some programming languages. One of them was C and I found the following site: http://www.di-mgt.com.au/cprog.html http://www.di-mgt.com.au/cprog.html Just to mention that the last update of this page was on 1 January 2010.

mrerrormessage 16y ago

What about "The C Programming Language"? Didn't that make a lot of us better programmers by teaching us how to use C?

agentultra 16y ago
It's a classic and certainly taught me a lot. It's also one of the more slim programming books on my shelf. I've considered handing to to friends interested in programming. Simply because I hand them a Python book with thousands of pages and I can see them visibly cringe. I also find the K&R style quite readable. :)
- RBerenguel 16y ago
  I also love K&R's style, it is one of my favourite books about programming
- gtani 16y ago
  Konig's Traps and Pitfalls, another slim book http://www.amazon.com/C-Traps-Pitfalls-Andrew-Koenig/dp/0201179288/ http://www.amazon.com/C-Traps-Pitfalls-Andrew-Koenig/dp/0201...
AndrejM 16y ago
Yes. But I'd also recommend getting Stephen Prata's C Primer Plus. It covers C99, and talks about more complicated topics such as multiple pointer indirection and the preprocessor.
forgotAgain 16y ago
I learned from the original edition back in the 80's. When I saw the price at Amazon I was surprised. The list price is given as $67. The Amazon price is $48. The book's a classic but the pricing seems excessive given that the edition is 22 years old.
rosstafarian 16y ago
yeah k&r is great i remember going through it my first time and being amazed at how elegant the example code was. Really a great book

spacemanaki 16y ago

This looks like it's only online resources, but I'm reading C Interfaces and Implementations, and it's great. I wish I had read it earlier. Even though I don't use C much at work, it's quite an interesting step from K&R.

sfphotoarts 16y ago

It's fascinating watching the HN community ebb and flow around topics, there's this collective conscious that discusses programming languages (mostly) and some days the tide takes us to a heavily Pythonic view of the world, and this week we're having a c revivalist movement. I thinking writing a system to identify topics on HN day after day and try to correlate this with other events might be interesting, is it for example all reactionary, is it some form of herding, does it follow topics on other similar forums, or just pseudo-random. Back to the topic. There is one definitive C resource, K&R.

mmastrac 16y ago
K&R doesn't cover c99, which makes C far less annoying to write in, IMHO. Unfortunately I don't have a good, comprehensive reference for c99 to offer up myself.
- nitrogen 16y ago
  The C99 standard itself and corresponding Wikipedia pages are quite useful. The gcc manual is also a handy reference for determining whether a particular gcc feature is standard compliant. http://www.google.com/search?&q=filetype%3Apdf+iso+9899 http://www.google.com/search?&q=filetype%3Apdf+iso+9899 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99
  - reirob 16y ago
    Funny that only 2 commercial compilers are fully supporting C99 standard: IBM Rational logiscope >= 6.4 and Sun Studio.
- parenthesis 16y ago
  The excellent, C: A Reference Manual (5th edition) covers C99. http://www.careferencemanual.com/ http://www.careferencemanual.com/ http://www.amazon.com/Reference-Manual-Samuel-P-Harbison/dp/013089592X/ http://www.amazon.com/Reference-Manual-Samuel-P-Harbison/dp/...

saqi 16y ago

This list is full of valuable links. Thank you all!

nitrogen 16y ago

I would recommend adding the Linux Kernel Coding Style guide to the list of recommended reading for C programmers. You don't have to follow its advice, but seeing some of the reasoning behind the policies therein can improve your appreciation of the language details. Original version (text): http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle Formatted version (HTML): http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/view/hacker/part2/hacker/coding-style.html http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/view/hacker/part2/hacke...