I'm thinking of making a video series on programming in C and then later maybe C++. I've been reading a lot of (mostly C++) programming books in preparation for this project.

I would really love this, and would following along 100%!

I bet you have, but have you seen PY4E?
https://www.py4e.com/

Dr. Chuck offers free [and paid] courses and videos on Python that were REALLY awesome - they're on both youtube and paid sites, but his method of teaching [and outlining courses that might interest you in the above] is awesome.

I'll be following if you launch this project, DM!



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On 16 Jan 2024, Digital Man said the following...

I'm thinking of making a video series on programming in C and then later maybe C++. I've been reading a lot of (mostly C++) programming books in preparation for this project.
My first video series will probably be a deconstruction/analysis of the 2nd edition of the K&R book (though yes, that's a really old version of
C now).

this is very cool, and i'm looking forward to it!

i do enjoy reading my copy of the K&R book.. nostalgic.

good luck!

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On 16 Jan 2024, Nightfox said the following...

Sometimes I wondered why they chose the books they chose. I remember the initial book for the C++ classes seeming a bit complicated, at least compared to the book used by the CS teachers.

i threw mine away.. it was one of those weird super thick programming books where the whole second half is just printouts of man pages. i also don't remember the example programs being particularly useful.

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Digital Man wrote to All <=-

I'm thinking of making a video series on programming in C and
then later maybe C++. I've been reading a lot of (mostly C++)
programming books in preparation for this project.

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I would be VERY interested in following this! Sure hope you're able to
do it, and thanks!



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On 17 Jan 2024, Digital Man said the following...

I plan to take the follow-up C++ courses (at minimum) at this same community college and will hopefully get a better sense of what the
other professors have to offer. I hope it gets better, but either way, it's been fun so far. --

what do you do for homework, interactions in class, etc? are you pretending to be a noob or do they know what you're up to?

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Re: Re: Taking a community college CIS/C++ course
By: fusion to Digital Man on Wed Jan 17 2024 09:09 pm

On 17 Jan 2024, Digital Man said the following...

I plan to take the follow-up C++ courses (at minimum) at this same community college and will hopefully get a better sense of what the other professors have to offer. I hope it gets better, but either way, it's been fun so far. --

what do you do for homework, interactions in class, etc? are you pretending to be a noob or do they know what you're up to?

It's an online course with about 40 students. I was honest about my background and reasons for taking the class. I'm not the only experienced programmer in the class (at least one other is a very experienced Java developer).

The course work mostly is watching videos, reading chapters from the book (not really necessary), reading articles and discussing on a web-board or reading descriptions of assignments and then writing and submitting the source code that completes the assignment. It's a 6 week course, so it's pretty dense. 2 week in and I think I've submitted something like 15 assignments already (but very easy programming tasks for experienced C or C++ programmer, the time consuming part is just making sure that every trivial detail in the assignment description is addressed in the submitted code).

I created a Discord server for the class and have been tutoring students there when I have time too.
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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Digital Man <=-

I tutored a FORTRAN class with a particularly bad professor. Friends of mine would hang out after the class and I'd go over what he'd taught.

Been there.

I always felt cheated when colleges hire professors for their research capabity, but make them teach.

I've had more than a couple of teachers/profs who fit the "How did repiles evolve? <teacher/prof> tried to teach fish how to swim" joke.


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Re: Re: Taking a community college CIS/C++ course
By: Digital Man to fusion on Wed Jan 17 2024 06:19 pm

I created a Discord server for the class and have been tutoring students there when I have time too.

That's great of you!

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On 2024-01-22, nelgin <EOTLBBS!nelgin@vert.synchro.net> wrote:

Re: Taking a community colleg
By: Digital Man to Nopants on Sat Jan 20 2024 13:53:44

Yeah, C is roughly a subset of C++. The languages have diverged and re-converged a bit over the years (and versions of their standards), but yeah, almost any experienced C++ programmer can program in C, though they often groan about it. :-)

I think the thing that put me off learning C is the 1001 different compile options for gcc. If you're going to be working on more portable open source projects then there's a whole subset of stuff you problem need to know like the autoconf tools and the like.

The code will run faster but I'm happy just to rip off a bit of perl and be done with it. no compilation, no makes files.

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You can be fine with ANSI C, The C programming language 2nd ED and tcc for most software from https://codemadness.org , git://bitreich.org and https://2f30.org
These are tons of small minimalist tools for anything. I love sacc for gopher and catpoint/pointtools. And hurl it's my default http/s and gopher downloader with a little script to download files per arg with 'basename'.

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