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Ask HN: How should I go about learning C?

Posted by bobajett on Thursday February 02, 2017 @12:46AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've mostly ever heard scary stories about C (or the "you need to get down to C for performance"). Since KRC was written in 1988 (2nd ed.) - how should I go about learning C? Is there a resource that captures all the gotchas, pitfalls that people have tripped over - over the past 2 decades? Should I even start with KRC or are there better resources to start with? I'm coming from a Ruby/Python...

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Re:“What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press ... on Friday January 16, 2015 @08:37PM (#8902939)
I would really like to know what happens when Im driving down a highway at say 60mph and browsing the web on my smartphone (or well let's say my wife is doing the driving and Im browsing the web :-) ). What kind of communication is happening between me and the cellphone towers? What data is my phone sending to the different cellphone towers as I drive by them? How does the cellphone tower send that data to the internet? Does someone have a good pointer to a resource that would answer these questions?
Re:The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (2009) on Thursday August 29, 2013 @07:12PM (#6299235)
Could someone point to a resource that would explain what happens when Im viewing a website on my phone driving down the highway?

What does my cellphone send to the nearest cell-phone tower? What does the cell-phone tower send to the phone company servers? How do they tie back together packets coming back from https://news.ycombinator.com back to my phone?

Re:The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life on Friday August 23, 2013 @01:36PM (#6265029)
Your Lord revealed to the bees: "Build dwellings in the mountains and the trees, and also in the structures which men build. Then eat from every kind of fruit and travel the paths of your Lord, which have been made easy for you to follow." From their bellies issues a drink of varying hues, containing healing for mankind. Indeed in this is a sign for people who think.

from the Koran chapter 16 entitled "The Bee".

Re:Do things, write about it on Monday August 12, 2013 @01:30PM (#6200465)
Just pursue what you think is cool or interesting to you, learn about it and write about it. Creativity doesn't have to be completely original. If you write about your own learning experiences with projects of interest to you, that scratch your own itch, Im sure it will be interesting, even valuable to a few people.
Re:A new blog dedicated to Emacs on Friday March 29, 2013 @12:41PM (#5461539)
Very cool! This makes working with HTML such a breeze: http://emacsrocks.com/e12.html

"do I file an issue with the emacs developers hoping it is voted on enough to make into the next version? Hell no! This is emacs. I fix it myself!"

Ask HN: How did you really learn Haskell?

Posted by bobajett on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @04:11PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've been going through Learn You a Haskell and Real World Haskell, but I was curious to find out the experience other Haskellers had in their path to learning Haskell? The author of LYAH himself mentioned: "I failed to learn Haskell approximately 2 times before finally grasping it because it all just seemed too weird to me and I didn't get it." So I thought it would be very interesting and...

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Re:Why Haskell Is Worth Learning on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @02:05PM (#5326580)
I started with LYAH loved the first 6 chapters. Got bogged down on the 7th because it was more abstract. Now Im reading both LYAH and Real World Haskell and reading both makes a great combination. If I get bogged down in one the other keeps my momentum going.
Re:Learn You Some Erlang now out in print on Thursday January 10, 2013 @05:03PM (#5040078)
I love LYAH, I think for learning Haskell, LYAH is the best intro, better than Real World Haskell. And at first I thought LYSE would be a sort of 1:1 mapping of LYAH, but no, LYSE treats it subject matter to a much wider breadth. There are like 20 extra chapters! And the "Don't drink too much Kool Aid" sections are a nice feature, not a lot of books call out the hype about something and give you the real low-down. Quite refreshing to get a realistic, pragmatic view instead.

Thanks to the author for making it available for free online. Im going to go purchase my copy now.

Re:Xkcd "Click and Drag" in a "map" interface on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @04:36PM (#4545461)
What, no Gandalf chasing a Balrog down the hole?!