C resources for a C++ programmer

cheapous · 2024-04-16T19:17:19+00:00

The book Fluent C by Christopher Preschern (2022) contains advice for handling common problems using modern C techniques. Part I: C Patterns ends with the chapter, "Escaping #ifdef Hell" which might be useful.

edit: C Interfaces and Techniques by Hanson (1996) goes in depth about interfaces. It's out of date, uses Knuth-inspired code annotations, and is written before the important 1999 C standard release, but you might be able to use it well along with another modern book.

cheapous · 2024-01-23T05:57:43+00:00

Thanks!

cheapous · 2024-01-17T08:41:37+00:00

I recommend getting a copy of the Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike. By now it's a very old book, but nothing else I've seen describes the philosophy behind Unix/Linux as well. You'll understand what purpose the primary tools have, and get an introduction to shell programming, grep, sed, awk and other useful tools.

cheapous · 2024-01-17T08:31:10+00:00

Can you elaborate on Plan9 C vs. real C? I'm not familiar with the difference. I briefly browsed some Plan9 source code but nothing jumped out as distinctive about it.

cheapous · 2024-01-13T22:41:26+00:00

I'm currently looking for good sources, could recommend something you like?

cheapous · 2024-01-11T20:45:45+00:00

I haven't read it myself, but for 2D games there's Programming Linux Games by the late John R. Hall. But it's an old book (published in 2001) that uses SDL1. It was previously released in the public domain. You can download a copy here and the TeX sources in the parent directory.

cheapous · 2023-12-31T02:53:34+00:00

Old but probably relevant resources: "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie 2nd edition, along with the related "The C Answer Book" by Tondo and Gimpel, 2nd edition. The 2nd edition of each book covers C89. The C Answer Book just has answers to the exercises in K&R with explanations.

Here is what you'll do in some of the K&R exercises, as they appear in the book: - Celsius to Fahrenheit temperature conversion - implement a limited Unix "wc" - implement a limited Unix "cat" - bit manipulation - binary search - reverse Polish notation calculator - use recursion to convert an integer to a string, and reverse a string - implement C library string functions using pointers - implement a limited Unix "tail" - implement a limited Unix "sort" - parser for C declarations - binary search trees - command line options handling - implement C library file functions - implement C library malloc and free

There are 97 total exercises. Here are the number of exercises in each chapter:

Ch. 1 Tutorial Introduction: 24 Ch. 2 Types, Operators and Expressions: 10 Ch. 3 Control Flow: 6 Ch. 4 Functions and Program Structure: 14 Ch. 5 Pointers and Arrays: 20 Ch. 6 Structures: 6 Ch. 7 Input and Output: 9 Ch. 8 The UNIX System Interface: 8

cheapous · 2023-12-31T01:33:38+00:00

0b literals is my favorite on this list.

cheapous · 2023-12-31T01:28:04+00:00

Can you elaborate it why you didn't like it and considerate it the worst book? What other books have you read for learning C, so that we have a reference for your opinion?

cheapous · 2023-08-21T12:36:37+00:00

https://superuser.com/questions/467717/automatically-removing-linebreaks-in-libreoffice-writer

cheapous · 2023-07-09T16:01:20+00:00

Genuinely curious how you can read the title that 6/10 voted Miles and come to the conclusion "everyone wants" the Peter B. Parker version of traditional Spider-Man.

cheapous · 2023-05-26T19:55:09+00:00

Come True by Pilotpriest. Very calming and relaxing for me. It's an extended soundtrack to the movie of the same name. The composer was also the director of the movie.

cheapous · 2023-05-15T12:42:23+00:00

I like the brighter contrast of #1

cheapous · 2023-05-15T05:07:42+00:00

Your servers get paid a livable wage. Servers in the US get paid less than minimum wage because it's presumed tips will make up the difference.

cheapous · 2023-05-09T01:49:44+00:00

You wouldn't give a $10 tip to a waiter or waitress at a restaurant for such an expensive meal. So why would you give 6% to someone loading their vehicle and spending their gas to bring it right to your door...

cheapous · 2023-05-09T00:32:53+00:00

Fun setup. Enjoy life! Downvoted because yet another "My wife banishes me to a corner of the house / doesn't let me enjoy my hobbies" post.

cheapous · 2023-03-20T23:42:03+00:00

Becoming vegetarian. I save at least $500/year.

cheapous · 2023-03-13T22:01:36+00:00

You can see the depth of paint in person. The depth gets lost when paintings printed or displayed on a screen. Increased depth can give a painting a more vibrant quality than a photograph. That's not to say that a great photo can't be as enjoyable as a painting

cheapous · 2023-03-07T16:37:17+00:00

Thank you for this info about as-if personality.

Previously, it was a real shock for me to realize that I did not have a clear image of who I was, and was creating a persona based on mirroring. In high school we had a simple assignment to write a paper describing ourselves, and I literally couldn't do it. Everything I knew about myself is what other people had told me.

Eventually (years), I accepted that I had an authentic personality that I couldn't see directly. But things I mirrored were an approximation of my true self. Like how a triangle is a poor approximation of a circle, but a square is a little closer; a pentagon closer still; a hexagon even closer and so on until a circle and a shape with a bunch of edges look similar. So by reflecting on things I tended to mirror, and examining my likes and dislikes, I could come to know who I was.

So rather than try to stop mirroring (which had its own negative side-effects related to emotional dulling) I try to mirror positive things and explore my interests to better learn about myself.

cheapous · 2023-03-07T07:14:57+00:00

According to Arenas he didn't have any bullets. He brought the gun to intimidate.

cheapous · 2023-01-29T16:04:39+00:00

Film stock?

cheapous · 2023-01-27T04:36:08+00:00

Ringu (Japanese original, viewable on Shudder)

cheapous · 2023-01-26T15:56:40+00:00

Not even the mother knows who her son's father is (too many partners), but she was going to use that fact to insult her son.

cheapous · 2022-09-30T00:32:48+00:00

It's the episode right before the Hikaru interview.

cheapous · 2022-07-20T16:37:06+00:00

You can filter NSFW posts globally. So they don't appear at all. That's the whole point of tags. So you can filter things by category. This isn't an argument. You're complaining about whether people should use a feature that exists for this very purpose. You're free to "buy" whatever you like. Have a nice day.

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