[clug-progsig] beginning c programs

[Rob S]

You may just want to get through one book on programming, then try a few 
small projects. I've got about 5 more chapters to read in the 24 
"chapter" book on C that i've been reading. I'm starting to get sick of 
looking at the thing, since i've been reading it for about 4 to 6 months 
now. There was one point (about half way finished) in the book where i 
did not want to keep reading it. I figured that this was where most 
people got to in programming, then gave up. Every so often i get the 
urge to return the book to its owner, unfinished, but then i keep 
thinking of all the people that try programming and gave up. I just dont 
want to do that.

My advice is to take the book in digestable chunks, perhaps a chapter at 
a time, until its all finished.
Remember to take breaks from it every so often. :)

Good luck with your efforts.

-Rob.

Michael Walters wrote:

>Hello Shawn and other members of the programming special interest group,
>
>I noticed that Shawn's example program that he gave me is very similar to the 
>first program in "Absolute Beginner's Guide to C" Second Edition.
>
>I am doing as Shawn suggested and doing my programming in small steps. I wrote 
>my first three programs just a few minutes ago and they all work! The first 
>program was  called "helloworld.c" which Shawn suggested. The second program 
>is called begin20050214.c by me and consists of the beginning program in my 
>text. The third program is called program3_20050214.c and prints out the 
>message "This program is written pretty!". The only difference between this 
>program and the first two is that I used tabs to indent the lines to make 
>them more readable and pretty.
>
>Does Shawn or anyone else in the group know how to set the tab to 3 spaces in 
>the vim editor as suggested by my text? right now my tab in the vim editor is 
>set to 8 spaces, which is more than what I want.
>
>I am going to work through "Absolute Beginner's Guide to C" before I try 
>anything fancy. Shawn, I agree with you that right now the goal of writing 
>code that can be called by Open Office is too complex to be within reach 
>until I have gone through smaller steps. However, I never intended to try to 
>tackle the problem right away, but it will probably take at least a year and 
>perhaps two to get to the point of writing applications which Open Office can 
>call. I might perhaps look at the source code of some open office 
>applications in perhaps six months. But even after looking at the source code 
>of these applications, I will not start to try to write my own code until I 
>go through at least one more of my other 13 C programming texts. Eventually I 
>plan to go through my 3 C++ programming texts too.
>
>By the time I have gone through all of my 14 C programming books and 3 C++ 
>programming books I should be able to write a few simple C and C++ programs 
>that can be called by open office. But that may be five years away.
>
>Regards,
>
>Michael Walters - an absolute beginner in C programming
>
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