The path of next topics of learning....??

**ozumsafa** · 10-10-2007

Hello ,
I need advanced c tutorials which should include hardware functions. To be honest , I do not know what to learn next. I passed data structure , wrote some programs , for instance I am going to write a compiler (simple for a simple language ) . But next?? There is c preprocessor , what else ..? Ermm .. I can overwhelm witm my confusions which is what I am going to do usually.And then I can start c++. But I do not want to do that before I learn C like more than an amateur . So I would be glad , if you showed me the path about this issue. Thank you for every response .....

Regards

**matsp** · 10-10-2007

Find a reasonable size project, and build it.

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Mats

**kcpilot** · 10-10-2007

If your thinking about the hardware side of C, then get a book (probably an old one now) about C Assembly language. That's what most hardware that is programmed in C uses.

**dwks** · 10-10-2007

"C Assembly language"? C and assembly are two separate languages. You might as well have said, "C C++ language".

I'm guessing you mean, learn how to program in assembly, and then learn how to use assembly from C. Well, that's certainly one thing you could do, but probably not something that would be very useful in this day and age.

**matsp** · 10-10-2007

I agree with DWKS. If anyone thinks that most drivers are written in assembler, they would be a fair bit wrong. Almost no driver is written in assembler - there may be some tiny bit of assembler because the compiler can't do what you want, but that would be very, very small amounts.

Low level functions in drivers use pointers, bit-fiddling (the binary operators &, |, ^, <<, >> and unary ~), and usually function pointers because although the driver is written in C, it's using some sort of object-oriented virtual method of generically calling a driver to do "write" or "read" for example.

Of course, it's useful to understand how assembler works, and what actually happens "behind the scenes" when a line of C is executed. But drivers are not written in assembler as a rule.

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Mats

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