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DATE | 2008-06-30 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] C Programing Workshop
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From lest-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Mon Jun 30 19:26:54 2008 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m5UNQqgo031983 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:26:54 -0400 Received: (from majordomo-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id m5UNQqqr031982 for hangout-outgoings; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:26:52 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: majordomo set sender to lest-hangout-at-nylxs.com using -f Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m5UNQn1U031977 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:26:51 -0400 Received: (from ruben-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id m5UNQndg031976 for hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:26:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:26:49 -0400 From: Ruben Safir To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] C Programing Workshop Message-ID: <20080630232649.GA31969-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> References: <20080629020405.GB22523-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> <7405d1440806291147o562c4f48o4f6b51018a0ccc9a-at-mail.gmail.com> <20080629194439.GA28808-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> <7405d1440806291736h4a8bf3e2ia3c1de78d205d9f5-at-mail.gmail.com> <20080630005604.GA14769-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> <7405d1440806301613rc9e4cd1l16f1ab540063211e-at-mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <7405d1440806301613rc9e4cd1l16f1ab540063211e-at-mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: lest-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:13:05PM -0400, Ronny Abraham wrote: > > The King book is actually very superior to K&R. It teaches C concepts > > exceptionally well. It's just damn expensive. I can always tell someone > > who learned C from K&R. They tend to do some weird things. > > Hmm. What's the full name of the author? I'll take a look.
NN King from the university of Gorgia I think.
Ruben > > >> The Strousberg text is a massive pain in the ass to deal with. I > >> know, they tried using it at NYU and everyone, I mean EVERY ONE of the > >> students bought another text to deal with the course (including me). > >> No one understood what the hell the Professor teaching the course was > >> saying, and he was actually pretty damn good (he's the current head of > >> the compsci grad division). > > > > Was that Meltzer? What was his name? > > Nah. it was Sasha. I think that's his name. Been a while. Great > professor. Trouble was Strousberg is so damn ... intelligent. > > > Debugging simplifiation and reuse is the main goal OO or any other programming format. > > I thnk your agreeing with me, not disagreeing. But if you jump straight to OO programming > > without the grounding to procedureal programing, you won't have a damn clue what your code > > does, let alone how it affects security or what it does in gdb. > > > > Remember -> In, Out, Side Affect, Repeat..... > > > Well, that was pretty much how we were taught ... Assembly, then C, > then pick stuff up. > > -ron
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