Thread: Approaching C

any pointer, stay away from pointer for now. (sorry, couldn't avoid the pun.) What I do is read most of the book, then look at the previous examples, usually I understand them better when they explain more of the topic. That is my tip.

>Generally I'm asking for advice on how to approach the language.
Carefully. If C is your first language then you will likely have trouble with it, but keep digging and everything will become clear. C isn't a good first language, but it is very rewarding. I highly recommend referring to K&R regularly as well as frequenting these forums. If you have questions, great. We can answer them. If you don't have questions, great. You can lurk and learn from other people's questions. Eventually though you'll want to try your hand at answering questions. You'll find that your own understanding improves drastically when somebody corrects you, and if you aren't corrected often then you're an asset.

ty for the replies (and the pun :P).
The note resource looks very useful. ty for the link.

If you have questions, great. We can answer them

Thanks for that as well, after reading the FAQ and the two stickies, I wasn't too sure whether there were trolls around. Now I know it's looking hopeful.

A quick query concerning the irc channel, is it active?

thanks again for the responses, V. helpful.

>I wasn't too sure whether there were trolls around.
We have our share of trolls, but they usually don't stay long once we've made them nice and toasty.

>A quick query concerning the irc channel, is it active?
Not much anymore.

http://users.powernet.co.uk/eton/kandr2/krx123.html

Code:

/* test.c */
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
   /*
    * I built Ben Pfaff's version, but I had to change this section:
    *    if (c == EOF) {
    *        if (state == SLASH)
    *            putchar('/');
    *        break;
    *    }
    */
    puts("Hello world" /* comments */);
    return 0;
}

Using pipes, the above code is fed to the comment stripper and this is the output.

Code:

H:\test>cstrip < test.c

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
         
    puts("Hello world" );
    return 0;
}

If I wanted to pipe the output to a file, I could do that just as well.