Best website to learn C?

[Zefues]

A website like codecademy to learn C.

[trag1c]

A website like codecademy to learn C.

https://www.thenewboston.com/videos.php?cat=14

 

Edit: not like code academy but very good tutorials. 

[linuxfan66]

A website like codecademy to learn C.

why do you want to learn c unless your doing kernel porgramming or gnu utils i cant recomend it. go c++ or c#. but your choice..

[Neil]

why do you want to learn c unless your doing kernel porgramming or gnu utils i cant recomend it. go c++ or c#. but your choice..

 

False. C is a very useful language.

[linuxfan66]

False. C is a very useful language.

I didnt say it wasnt i was implying its not used for managed runtimes. c++ is mostly used for higher level stuff that isnt kernels, gnu utils, etc as far i can tell anyway.

its the cause most most buffer overflow security bugs too along with c++. you cant even overflow on alot of languages no matter what, but it is necessary never the less.

[Nuluvius]

I didnt say it wasnt i was implying its not used for managed runtimes. c++ is mostly used for higher level stuff that isnt kernels, gnu utils, etc as far i can tell anyway.

its the cause most most buffer overflow security bugs too along with c++. you cant even overflow on alot of languages no matter what, but it is necessary never the less.

What...

[linuxfan66]

What...

fine further explanation.

many security flaws are caused by buffer overflows. they only occur on non managed languages such as c and c++ when not managed .net . (java,.net, etc is not usually affectd)

heartbleed was anther buffer flaw. c/c++ stagefright library, etc. they are all caused by an unmanaged language. my point was i under stand c/c++ is needed for some things. I just have an issue with it due to causing bugs like that in its unmanaged state for security purposes.

[Neil]

fine further explanation.

many security flaws are caused by buffer overflows. they only occur on non managed languages such as c and c++ when not managed .net . (java,.net, etc is not usually affectd)

heartbleed was anther buffer flaw. c/c++ stagefright library, etc. they are all caused by an unmanaged language. my point was i under stand c/c++ is needed for some things. I just have an issue with it due to causing bugs like that in its unmanaged state for security purposes.

 

I'm pretty sure you're just putting a lot of words together in an attempt to sound like you know what you're talking about.

[linuxfan66]

I'm pretty sure you're just putting a lot of words together in an attempt to sound like you know what you're talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow#Choice_of_programming_language

yes its wikipedia and willing be corrected if you can prove you know better.

[as96]

Just buy a book that's the best thing you could do when you want to learn a language.

[Zefues]

Just buy a book that's the best thing you could do when you want to learn a language.

But my library only has outdated coding books from versions way back.

[SteveGrabowski0]

Can you program in another langueage already? If so, you should really consider getting K&R, it's an incredible book to learn C from. Buy it, download a pdf of it, whatever, it's a tremendous book. If you don't have much programming experience then C is a terrible language to start with, Python or Scheme would be much better. Even Java would be better.

 

http://www.amazon.com/The-Programming-Language-Brian-Kernighan/dp/0131103628

 

 

Here is an interesting free course that starts with some C

https://see.stanford.edu/Course/CS107

 

They use a stanford library that you can't find for multithreaded stuff though, so learn some pthreads to do the examples from class and from the assignments.

[madknight3]

The only interactive tutorial I know if is Learn-C and it seems too basic. Feel free to give it a shot, just expect to include other resources with your learning.

 

I'll also mention Harvard's CS50. It's an introduction to Computer Science that happens to also use C.

[SteveGrabowski0]

I'll also mention Harvard's CS50. It's an introduction to Computer Science that happens to also use C.

 

I second this recommendation, CS50 is a great course. You actually get into some pretty advanced stuff in it, like stack smashing attacks. And the course is nice in that you do other languages too. I still think C is much better as a second or third language, but they executed that course very well.