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A comment on The Command Line Crash Course (Zed Shaw).

Re:The Command Line Crash Course (Zed Shaw) by jnbiche on Friday December 16, 2011 @06:40PM (#3362819)
Since I didn't get a chance to comment on yesterday's post on "The Hard Way" command line course, I want to mention today that Zed Shaw is also working on a very nice C course for experienced programmers. I've been looking unsuccessfully for an online C course like this one, that doesn't do things like explain what functions, primitives, etc. are. Starts out a little slow with compiling and setting up your development environment, but then reveals a very well-written introductory course on C programming for experienced programmers. As an experienced Python/Javascript/PHP programmer with an interest in C, I've been looking for an online course like this for a long time.

Zed: can we somehow compensate you for your works-in-progress? I've gotten a lot out of your C course. I can't wait until it's available in epub format.

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Re:The Command Line Crash Course (Zed Shaw) by zedshaw on Saturday December 17, 2011 @03:22AM (#3363805)
Just tell me when you find errors so I can fix them, and then if you appreciate it buy a PDF/ePub when it becomes available. Actually selling something is way easier to explain to the tax man than a "donation".
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Re:The Command Line Crash Course (Zed Shaw) by jnbiche on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @12:12PM (#3374182)
Will do. And I just purchased your udemy C course. And WOW! I'm looking ahead in the pdf and you're going to cover a lot. Perhaps the same is reflected in the HTML version -- I 've not yet looked ahead.

Folks, if you're a Python, Ruby, Javascript, etc. programmer and you're interested in learning C, this is the book for you.

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Re:The Command Line Crash Course (Zed Shaw) by Joeboy on Saturday December 17, 2011 @03:25AM (#3363810)
> Just tell me when you find errors so I can fix them

http://learncodethehardway.org/cli/book/cli-crash-coursech4.... has 'diretories'.

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Re:The Command Line Crash Course (Zed Shaw) by telemachos on Friday December 16, 2011 @07:55PM (#3362992)
>> [C]an we somehow compensate you for your works-in-progress? I've gotten a lot out of your C course. I can't wait until it's available in epub format.

No idea what Zed would suggest, but there's an in-progress Udemy video course[1] of Zed's on C that you can already purchase.

[1] http://www.udemy.com/learn-c-the-hard-way/

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Re:The Command Line Crash Course (Zed Shaw) by jnbiche on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @12:09PM (#3374172)
Thanks for the suggestion -- I just purchased it. I'm not big one videos, but I'm getting so much out of the book I'm purchasing it in support of the book (and it looks like I'll receive a copy of the book whenever it's done along with the udemy purchase).
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