Cussedness
The natural cussedness of things in general.
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Ubuntu
Last week I installed the latest release of Ubuntu Linux (nicknamed “Edgy Eft”, don’t ask) on my dinky laptop and I have to say I’m really rather impressed.
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printf(”Hello world\n”);
I’ve just started teaching myself C, from “K & R“. So far I’ve finished the first chapter and managed to make more-or-less operational solutions to most of the exercises.
All of the programming I do is in C-based languages, so I’ve not really learned that much yet apart from a couple of GCC options, some standard library functions, and the concept of char arrays. It’s pleasing to see where it all comes from though.
At the moment I’m slightly worried about my chances of actually learning C properly, because I don’t really have any projects or ideas that require me to know it. All my previous programming knowledge has been acquired because of a need to use the language in question. K & R isn’t a long book though, and I’m confident that I’ll get to the end without too much trouble. Even if I don’t come up with any ideas I’m sure I’ll learn useful lessons from the experience.
(Incidentally, this was the default Wordpress installation test post, which is usually entitled “Hello, world!” in honour of the first program in K & R, hence the subject matter.)