As A Newbie,How Can I Learn C Language Well?

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please give me some advise ,thank you; i feel elly puzzled;
how can i learn it well?

Posted 5-Apr-15 15:34pm

panlincong

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Apr-15 22:18pm

How can anyone know what you can do? I believe, almost all people could do it, by trying hard. "Almost all" does not mean "all". Best rule is: "even if your eyes are afraid of work, your hands can do it".
—SA

panlincong 6-Apr-15 0:43am

thank you very much ,in the fact,i think that there is no people want to answer my question ,but i see your answer and your answer is very serious ,i am really move.i would never give up.

panlincong 6-Apr-15 0:44am

thank you

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Apr-15 0:45am

Not a bad idea...
Good luck.
—SA

panlincong 6-Apr-15 0:50am

thanks.

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Solution 4

I recommend reading a book, picking up the basics while simultaneously trying out some of the samples and programs.
After that its just practice.

Posted 5-Apr-15 20:48pm

Abhinav S

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ZurdoDev · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-05T15:48:00

Solution 1

In my opinion, the best way to learn a programming language is to get a job doing it. If that's not an option, then find a project you're interested in and build it in C or whatever language you want.

You can find tutorials, books, and examples online for any language. If you are unsure about C I'd suggest looking into C# instead.

You can only get well by practice.

Posted 5-Apr-15 15:48pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Apr-15 22:20pm

Won't you agree that practice is by far not enough? Or, at best, it could be a hard way. I just never face a good developer who did not learn theory seriously enough.
—SA

panlincong 6-Apr-15 0:47am

you suggest is that i should learn the theory ,then practice it mor and more.is it true ?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Apr-15 1:01am

The truth is: you have to learn everything.

In ideal world (or with an ideal person), you can learn theory along and be theoretically ready for doing all works covered by the theory.

But there some caveats here: first, even if theory covers some topics, the particular book or article cannot explain all aspects, so real learning is learning how to think. More importantly, with just reading, there is one unpleasant phenomenon: illusion of knowledge and understanding, instead of real knowledge and understanding. Facing practical problems helps to break this illusion and clean up a way to true knowledge and understanding.

—SA

panlincong 6-Apr-15 1:55am

thanks ,i have remembered your advice ,it offer me a thought for learning c languag,as the saying goes :Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
i would hold on;

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Apr-15 1:56am

You are welcome.
Good luck, call again — for fishing. :-)
—SA

panlincong 6-Apr-15 2:05am

ok,,, ,my English is not very well,~-~, thank you,;-) i am glad to meet you

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Apr-15 2:24am

My pleasure.

Even though you need to learn English better (all software people have to learn it these days), I don't think it will be a problem. Just the opposite: after your comments, I can hope that you are a thorough reader, good enough to get my advice I published for you as Solution 2.

—SA

panlincong 6-Apr-15 4:20am

i will

ZurdoDev 6-Apr-15 7:30am

Actually, I've never taken a programming class or studied the theory. I am self taught.

I know many developers that know the theory but can't do real world at all. Theory may be good for some, but not a requirement.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Apr-15 9:55am

I don't understand. Not taking any class does not mean not learning theory. I also almost never had such classes, not counting something well too obsolete and irrelevant. Not understanding computer science in practical software developers is much more serious problem than not knowing any particular technology or language...

Now, as to the developers "that know the theory but can't do real world at all". Come on, how do you know that they actually know some theory? I am sure, they only know the name of things or think they know, but actually don't know nothing. I know many examples of that. There is such thing as illusion of knowledge. Besides, what is "theory" in computing is not a simple question. And, actually, there is a lot of pseudo-science there. (For example, because there are universities where people what to defend dissertations. Sad. I see more an more signs of fake education (here on CodeProject, for example) and fake science...) Not a requirement? I would be more careful about it.

—SA

panlincong 6-Apr-15 23:12pm

i get a email from OridinalGriff say that :i was posting rubbish,if i do this again .ask me deleted .
what i did wrong?please tell me how i should do,i was fist join the community.thanks!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Apr-15 0:29am

Excuse me, what was that "rubbish"? You have only two posts except comments... Could you provide a link to what he called rubbish? And even if you post some rubbish somewhere, this would not be a reason for cancellation of your membership. Threatening you this was is a serious thing.

Yes, the community expels some member accounts, maybe few a day on average, but it happens on really serious accusations: commercial spam, plagiarism, saying bad words to other members which touch someone's personalities (outrageously scandalous behavior). (We should not blame anyone for criticizing anyone's posts, ideas or views, but personal offense is not welcome.)

Now, I don't understand: are you saying that OriginalGriff addressed you in private? If so, how? He usually don't mess with people here, so it's even hard to believe. Do you have any evidence? (Maybe it was just a CodeProject comment, presently removed?)

I mean, if you think that you are treated unfairly, (on a personal level, of course) or are pressed to limit your free of speech here, you can report this kind of abuse (as well as any other abuse, such as plagiarism) at our Spam and Abuse Watch forum here: http://www.codeproject.com/Forums/1652005/Spam-Watch.aspx.

If, by some reason, enough members reports on your account, it can be automatically removed. Such things based on false accusations also happened sometimes. In such case, if your account becomes disabled and you cannot use it to report this problem on the site, and if you can demonstrate that you haven't done any serious abuse, I would advise to write a complain to administration, Chris Maunder in particular. (I'm not quite sure I can give his e-mail here; it you don't know it yourself, you can, for example, write to me in private via my Web site found in my CodeProject profile, then I can forward your message.)

—SA

panlincong 7-Apr-15 1:34am

can you give me your email?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Apr-15 8:38am

No, but you can write me a message via my Web site found on my CodeProject profile page.
—SA

panlincong 7-Apr-15 9:06am

ok,it is also a good way .

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Apr-15 19:12pm

I receive all your messages, thank you. I actually reserved this channel in case you loose your membership, but I don't think you should really be afraid of that. As to your technical questions, why would not you publish them on this forum? Why, indeed, I have to answer them along? This is the whole idea of your forum. There are not worse than many other, questions like questions... This way, it will be better for more readers.
—SA

panlincong 7-Apr-15 20:04pm

thank you for your teaching,i have realized my mistake of the behavior,i will take notice of it.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Apr-15 20:51pm

Please, no problem with your behavior...
—SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-05T20:08:00

We discussed main things in out comment to the question and the first answer. In addition to that, let me offer you my past answers on learning. Sorry, they are mostly general or related to other languages and technologies, such as .NET, C#, Java, but let me assure you: they apply to C learning pretty well:

I have a problem with my program. Please help![^],
how to improve my technological capability[^],
what java language features are necessary to develop a fully function mobile application?[^],
How important is it for a beginner asp.net developer to have a senior by his side?[^].

See also: What are Apache Struts and JBoss Hibernate[^].

And some more:
Why the hell it is so hard to become programmer?[^],
[Not a question] Conceder a situation where we have a super class Worker and the two subclasses part time worker and Full time Worker[^],
One Challenge in WPF Programing[^].

And, finally, one general advice on learning how to pose and solve problems and how to choose problems to work at: Help Me to Choose A Better Final year Project[^].

Sorry for some number of repeated phrases, ideas and quotes: I did not mean to write a dissertation on learning; this is just a set of unordered notes in response to CodeProject questions. I do hope you can understand them properly.

—SA