Quote Originally Posted by RVC View Post
Good morning, Tater.

Again, thanks for your help, especially for the tutorials.

This board is a great resource. From reading through some of the more recent threads I find myself clueless about most of what is being said. Time and effort will remedy some of that I trust. It's good to know there is so much available to help one up the learning curve.

All the best.

RVC
G'day RVC...

It's no problem... kinda why I do this. Back when I was first starting out programming (late 70s, Pascal) resources like this didn't exist so we all stumbled along more or less on our own. When I started with C (after Borland killed Pascal) I found a forum similar to this one and the help I got was amazing... that Forum is defunct now, so this is my way or repaying some of the kindess...

One hint I can give you about Pelles C ... put the cursor on any keyword and press F1... When you're ready I can show you how to extend that to include most of the basic windows API calls as well... very helpful in understanding new examples.

One of the skills I've been sharpening on this forum is reading other people's code. We can all read our own stuff but reading someone else's code is a challenge. Some of the people here just blow me away... they seem able to just glance and see what code is doing; 6 years into this (as a hobby) and I still struggle to read "foreign" code more than not.

But, don't even worry about that just yet... Set your compiler warnings on level 2 (high) do the tutorials and their exercises. But then, before moving on, go beyond each exercise... Change the code in the exercises, see what your changes do, note the warnings and errors they cause, learn how to fix your messes. These are the lessons that will stay with you.

In this "Give it to me right now" world, many people fail to realize that we are our own best teachers... That is: we learn best by doing.

Nobody ever learned to drive a nail by watching a video on YouTube... that knowledge came as a matter of urgency when they picked up the hammer and realized they would be swinging it at their own hand. As I've told many here, you don't learn by watching videos and you won't learn by doing "scoop and poop" (copy and paste) programming... You need to write your own code if it's ever going to sink in. Just like you need to drive that first nail...

Enjoy your day, my friend....