What is "C"?

[bobhlgh]

Hi -
I enjoyed reading "Never heard of operating system".  To give you an idea of what I know (or don"t know), In the 70s I learned to write programs in Fortran 4 and wrote programs for the company I worked for.  It seems to me you think "C" is the best place to start if a person wants to learn programing.  Is "C" available in any study at home format.  I probly will not go back to studing again but I am curious?   Thanks     Bob

[soybean]

Sure.  Books, library, Internet sources, etc.  From Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=c%20programming%20language&sprefix=c+programming+language%2Caps&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Ac%20programming%20language

From a Google search on how to study c programming language:  http://www.cprogramming.com/how_to_learn_to_program.html

[bobhlgh]

soybean
Thanks    That was just what I wanted.  I will fallow up with that.   Bob

[Geek-9pm]

May I kindly suggest you download a free copy of Microsoft Visual Studio. That package will let you do some programming in C, if you wish. Nevertheless, C++ is a better choice, in the opinion of many, many programmers and authors.
Here is a closed topic on another forum that represents the views of some.

Why would anybody use C over C++ ?

[bobhlgh]

Geek-9pm -
Thanks for your suggestion.  I will check it out.    Bob

[BC_Programmer]

May I kindly suggest you download a free copy of Microsoft Visual Studio. That package will let you do some programming in C, if you wish. Nevertheless, C++ is a better choice, in the opinion of many, many programmers and authors.

You can even force projects to compile as C, rather than C++ code. This essentially disables all C++ features. Why that would be desired for a desktop application, I don't know- but it's there.

[bobhlgh]

soybean -
Your suggestion of a book from Amazon was good.  I had never dealth with Amazon before.  I spent an hour and a half talking to a man I could hardly understand but everything came together and I am getting a book on C programming.  Thanks for your help.    Bob

[bobhlgh]

soybean, Geek-9PM,BC_Programmer -
For your infromation.  I got the C programming book and got "Jumping into C++"  book.  Both of these books had an example of how to write a program.  If you followed their example you could write a program that would print "hello world".  I could not get the programs to work because when I clicked on places they wanted me to, the result would sometimes be different than the example shown in the book.  I may get some one to help me.  I doubt that I could explain the problem to the forum, I need a hands on.  Thanks you all were very helpful.