Re:C Programming for Everybody (CC4E)
by AlexeyBrin on Sunday December 31, 2023 @06:14PM
(#38828334)
The problem with this course is that it teaches K&R C, C before the ANSI standardization. Nobody is writing C like this today. Interesting if you need to understand really old C code or if you have a time machine, but that's about it. Not recommended if you intend to write C code in 2024!
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:C Programming for Everybody (CC4E)
by thousandknives on Monday January 01, 2024 @07:36AM
(#38831412)
Well, he writes himself:
*The book is augmented in places to help understand its rightful place in a historical context amidst the major changes of the 1970's and 1980's as Computer Science evolved from a hardware-first / vendor-centered aproach to a software-centered approach where portable operating systems and applications written in C could run on any hardware.
This is not the ideal book to learn C programming because the 1978 edition does not reflect the modern C language. Using an obsolete book gives us an opportunity to take students back in time and understand how the C language was evolving as it laid the ground work for a future with portable applications.*
I assume the exercises are to be written in ANSI C, though I haven't attempted one yet