New to Programming

[jba4551]

Hello everyone! I'm taking my first class in C programming. I've been searching hours for a good command reference/definition guide. I'm looking for something that spells out the usage in detail the meaning of things. Example:

// Two forward slashes means you are about to "comment out" the words that will follow, these comments will not effect the running of your program.

\n This is a carriage return, returning you to the left of the next line below.

It seems very elementary, but I've never taken a programming class before, and my instructor is a wiz at this stuff and skips a lot of defining, like %i, %f. Somewhere out there, someone must have compiled a list like this.

Thanks, Jeff
Ohio

[cyberfish]

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html

[tabstop]

I would guess that many people have compiled such lists. Usually we call them "books", though.

[Meldreth]

it's not good to veg out in class. if your instructor talks about something you don't understand, ask about it or he won't know you don't understand!

[Adak]

Welcome to the forums, Jeff!

\n This is a carriage return, returning you to the left of the next line below.

This: \n is a newline char, which (stay with me), is C for two char's: The first one is the CR (carriage return), and the second one is a LF (line feed).

In a DOS or Windows text file, the newline is expanded when the file is loaded from disk, into those two char's: CR/LF, so the file will display correctly.

In Linux and Unix, the newline stays as a single char. (Which is why silly little editors like Notepad, can't display a Linux/Unix text file, correctly if they load up one.)

May I recommend Ivor Horton's book, "Beginning C", for you? Great explanation of things, and lots of examples of problem solving, also.