Thread: Somewhat Lost...

Hi,

Iv'e been self teching myself C for about 2 months now and iv'e read 2 books.
"C for dummies 2nd edition"
"C Programing" By Larry Ullman & Marc Liyanage

And iv'e found myself flying through the material but iv'e come too a halt because iv'e found heaps of material on Basic stuff (stuff iv'e read and already know) or stuff thats way too advanced for me to understand, it seems the intermediate stage is a little neglected, I read through the books thread for maybe some direction but it was too undescriptive and therefore not too much help.


Also I have a question, is it better too learn C and get an advanced grasp of it before I start learning C++ or is it better just too jump into it all at once because i have a book on C++ but i don't know if i should burdon myself with that section of it untill i have my head properly wrapped around C

I guess i'm mainly just asking for some guidence any In depth tutorials or ebooks would be very helpfull.

~Matty-Alan~

I'd recommend Ivor Horton's "Beginning C".

Yes, it has all the elementary stuff you already know, but the book also has several examples of solving real problems with C. As he takes you through them, step by step, you get a real insight into how software programs can be designed and coded to solve bigger problems.

Still, there is nothing you won't understand, as far as math or data structures or such. No graphs, no minimum spanning tree's, and no hashes.

It's important imo, to code up things that really interest you, as well. I like doing little puzzles and utilities.

As a comparison, Ivor Horton also wrote a book for beginning C++. The C book is 525 pages, the C++ book is over 1,000!

Awsome,

I do plan to stick with this board, and iv'e been wanting to program since i was like 12 (im 22 now) and i'm loving it like anything. my main goal is both C and C++

I am aiming for gaming programming but I know I have a long road to walk, iv'e made a few Ansii games that can be played in the dos command mainly using conditional statements I have used pointers and learnt about allocating dynamic memory but I havent got my head fully wrapped around how to apply it to any real word programs yet

"Beginning C" also includes an example of programming a game of "Reversi", (aka "Othello"), which is a fun and non-trivial application.

Board's like this are a tremendous help for any programmer. Another recommendation is to take a class in the language, when you can. You'll get a LOT out of a good class, in a short length of time. Extremely valuable, imo.