Thread: Hello, I am a newbie and so I have a newbie question;)

I recently started to get into programming and I understand the basics of the programming language. I figured I should get some experience with the C programming language and the others will be easy to learn. Right now I am reading the "C programming language Ansi C" by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie because they had such a high rating on amazon for beginners like me. I also want to get hands on experience and I was wanting if somebody would recommend me a open source project that uses C language. I am not at the level where I can contribute but I do certainly want to get my feet wet and have a look at the bigger picture.

It's probably a better idea to complete all the exercises in K&R2 and to take a look at the C standard first. Once you're fairly comfortable with the language, you could search for C repositories using a website like Github.

Originally Posted by Barney McGrew

It's probably a better idea to complete all the exercises in K&R2 and to take a look at the C standard first. Once you're fairly comfortable with the language, you could search for C repositories using a website like Github.

Thanks for the quick response! I will go ahead and complete all of the exercises and check out C standard.

Ok c99tutorial, I basically download the snip9707.zip file right and inside there are many different mini examples.