Book: Learning GNU C - Summary
This project is not part of the GNU Project.
I'm trying to write a book for learning C with a very practical focus. I did most of the work in 2002 and 2003, almost nothing in 2004, 5, 6, and 7, and now in 2008 I'm looking into it again.
The book aims to be practical in that after teaching the basics, it will move directly to features needed to make useful applications, such as reading and writing files and your harddrive, using the GDB debugger, and maybe even basic GNOME application development.
No prior knowledge of C or programming in general is assumed, but it does assume the reader is using GNU/Linux (although probably any Unix-like operating system with GCC would work).
This book is nowhere near finished and I used to hope to have a draft ready for the end of May 2004, but that didn't happen so I'll stop making such predictions :-)
The current content is actually OK, but it's incomplete.
Registration Date: Friday 07/26/2002 at 13:33 UTC
License: GNU Free Documentation License
Development Status: 3 - Alpha
posted by coriordan, Thursday 07/17/2008 at 23:39 UTC - 0 replies
Nothing has changed in my life to give me more spare time, but I've suddenly got an interest in this again.
I've decided to use TexInfo, so learning_gnu_c.texinfo is the file I'm doing development in.
posted by coriordan, Tuesday 12/02/2003 at 22:04 UTC - 0 replies
I've fixed a few bugs, including the ones reported by the savannah bug reporting system (thanks Cédric Barboiron). I've also made some very small changes.
I still don't have much spare time, but I'm getting used to working on a lot of projects at once ;-)
Over the next month I'll continue to do occassional work on the book, and in January 2004 I hope to have some regular time for it.
posted by coriordan, Monday 03/31/2003 at 12:34 UTC - 0 replies
hello all/none.
I have done little or no work on this book since the start of the
year. In December of 2002 I decided a rewrite/reorganise would be a
good idea, this proved too big a task for the spare time I had. The
project went on hold half way through the rewrite; so what exists now
is a jumbled mess.
I do have plans to restart work on this, I have to find some kind
of plan that would give me the time in my life to do this.
Ciaran O'Riordan
posted by coriordan, Thursday 02/06/2003 at 14:22 UTC - 0 replies
Hello all.
The last two months have left me little time to work on the book.
This made December a bad time to begin a rewrite :)
After using TexInfo for a while I remembered why I didn't like it:
It's a crappy language but has great tools. In contrast, DocBook is
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