alnayyir

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by alnayyir 16y ago
There's a trade-off to be made here and it can be compensated for by knowing really good people.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
TextMate and Gedit for my more sundry programming needs Emacs when I'm hacking on Clojure/(some-other-lisp) Grooveshark for tunes Unison for remote folder syncing (sucks on OS X, I'd love to have a replacement for this) I have a knack for u
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Would you be interested in being a test subject for a C book?
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by alnayyir 16y ago
##C on Freenode. I accept no blame for your impending suicide.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
You're relentlessly modest. Do you know C or would be interested in learning it?
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Sure, if they have a copy of the standard sitting on their desk.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Context specific. Could be intel debugger, could be undefined behavior, could be implementation defined behavior. I tested them on a group of about 15 C devs, mixture of embedded, linux, DSP, and other volken. Got the same guesses I made an
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Not likely to happen, outside scope.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
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by alnayyir 16y ago
I know a line cook that codes C on his free time that would strangle someone who was paid to code that couldn't make a fake object + method calls out of a struct and function pointers.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
#1: You'll learn to write good code, I'm not going to ride the bicycle in front of you though. That said, I won't lie like math teachers do either. #2: Plan on it, although I won't be teaching "MAEK GTK GUI LUL" either. That's up to the stu
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by alnayyir 16y ago
No I mean pitiless. The C channel I've observed for years is out and out brutal.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Sort of, I'm not going to try to write perfect code, but I will make myself a better programmer by doing this. Further, the aim is to teach people how and why to write bulletproof code, not to demonstrate bulletproof CString tutorials.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
The unwillingness to do for fear of violating some perfect model leads to never making progress at all. No such thing as a perfect program, startup, relationship, or book.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Not going to bother demonstrating perfect tutorial code. All they'll learn from that is to write flawless tutorial code. Might as well put Lance Armstrong on a bicycle in front of a 5 year old and expect them to learn how to ride a bicycle
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by alnayyir 16y ago
On the dot.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
>I'm not sure it makes sense any more to teach C to beginners Good thing I'm not writing it for beginners. >I'll probably be releasing code from my first medium-sized C project in a week or so... anyone care to offer tips on how to
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Beg your pardon?
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Rather avoid imp specific like ELF. I'll encourage reusing existing code/libraries.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
The how isn't much use without the why. Planned on it.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
I have a split-test/feedback group prepared.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
About 10 years worth, I'm unqualified anyway.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
You've more or less described what I plan to do and why.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
That feeling of inadequacy and incompleteness post-K&R is something I experienced too and is something I'm hoping to address.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Nobody's qualified to run a company when they do their first startup either.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
I'll be referencing a lot of material, not all of them programming related. I'll try to dig up some old text files I liked as a kid per your recommendation.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
I picked C because I want people to learn C specifically to build the kinds of things C is good for these days. This isn't completionism, it's very purposeful I'd like to see the little Erlanger too actually.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
As Zed stated, his concept of LCTHW isn't for beginners to programming. K&R has sated that need. It's easier to understand what I'm aiming for when you've already gone through the rigamarole of learning C from the existing texts.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
You are omniscient lately. Retracted.
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by alnayyir 16y ago
Worded better than I did, agreed.

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