Re: Free C Programming Course Suggestions
That C tutorial is seriously out of date. It has literally been out of date since before I was born. It uses old style function declarations. It's rife with archaic MS-DOS advice and various bad practices. Granted, I've seen worse, but there's no reason to recommend such a tutorial in this day and age.
I was skeptical about that at first, but then I had a read through, and I second what he said.
I'll leave someone else to critique the C++ tutorial, but observe that C and C++ are very different languages.
That's actually in my opinion one of the better free, online C++ sites. cplusplus.com is a really good reference once you get the hang of C++, although the tutorials may not be as good as formally learning it. They are quite good, if you can learn from it, then great. But don't be surprised if you run into difficulty, just try, then ask for help. (and when you ask for help, show that you've tried)
PS, I'll also reccommend skipping C. Just learn C++, you'll probably find a lot more up to date documentation. And then once you master C++ you can easily enough research where the overlap between the two languages is, thus learn C quickly just from understanding what you can't use from C++ and what will work differently. (You can use a similar method to learn Java, C#, Javascript, Flash, and Objective C if you're really hardcore, but that'll take a couple of years)
Last edited by dagoth_pie; June 13th, 2012 at 03:27 PM.
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