| thermoplyae | then learn |
| Eclipsor | you learn along the way |
| Flaran | somewhat what I did with PHP but you lose big gaps of knowledge doing that |
| Eclipsor | one of the guys in summer of code knew little C, but he worked on WINE and learned a lot through it |
| thermoplyae | My big project was to convert an old ASM/C protected mode flight sim engine to cross platform, modern C It was massive and it was hard and I am a good programmer now |
| Flaran | woah woah |
| Eclipsor | haha :p |
| Flaran | how much did you know going into that? |
| thermoplyae | I knew C syntax and I had a vague idea of how hardware worked |
| Flaran | i'm not even sure if I know all of C syntax |
| Eclipsor | Flaran: then go grab a book on C a good book |
| thermoplyae | It's easy to learn; C is a small language |
| Eclipsor | it is |
| purplepenguins | C is hard to program with though |
| thermoplyae | "hard" in that you have to think |
| Flaran | see, i've gone through C++ tutorials, etc |
| Eclipsor | don't be intimidated by those 1000+ page books on C/C++, go straight for the tiny "C Proramming Language" Programming* |
| meowarrior | you can learn C in a weekend, but 10 years to master |
| purplepenguins | to write good code you have to be cautious |
| thermoplyae | Indeed, C Programming Language is a decent book |
| Eclipsor | it's the best book I've used, really |
| Flaran | don't really have the choice of picking up a book at the moment actually i have a book on Java already, and I fully know the syntax maybe it would be better to go with it for now? |
| purplepenguins | depends on what you are doing |
| action | Flaran waits for flame. |
| Flaran | waits for flame. |
| thermoplyae | If you want to do things in Java, sure |
| meowarrior | Darnell & Margolis's "C: A software engineering aproach" i my recommendation for C |
| Flaran | wow, I didn't get any Java flame. |
| purplepenguins | Java is a good language |
| Flaran | direct, at least. a lot of people don't think the same. |
| purplepenguins | but not for everything |
| Flaran | well |
| purplepenguins | It has its uses |