C++Talk.NET C++ language newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  How to improve programming skill?          C++Talk.NET Forum Index -> C Language (Moderated) View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message w8 Guest Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 9:06 pm    Post subject: How to improve programming skill? Hi, I've just read some books on the programming language C, and I find I'm absolutely incompetent with any project. Please can anyone advice me how to improve my programming skills? Thanks -- comp.lang.c.moderated - moderation address: clcm (AT) plethora (DOT) net -- you must have an appropriate newsgroups line in your header for your mail to be seen, or the newsgroup name in square brackets in the subject line. Sorry. Back to top Hans-Bernhard Bröker Guest Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 9:11 am    Post subject: Re: How to improve programming skill? w8 wrote: Quote: I've just read some books on the programming language C, and I find I'm absolutely incompetent with any project. Please can anyone advice me how to improve my programming skills? I don't think there's any working method besides the old-fashioned one: learning by doing (but with a useful, correct reference book at hand). Keeping the FAQ of this newsgroup in reach also helps. Knowing some language-independent things about how to structure a big project into small tasks that can be implemented in your language of choice is important, too. -- comp.lang.c.moderated - moderation address: clcm (AT) plethora (DOT) net -- you must have an appropriate newsgroups line in your header for your mail to be seen, or the newsgroup name in square brackets in the subject line. Sorry. Back to top Chris Hills Guest Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 9:11 am    Post subject: Re: How to improve programming skill? In article <clcm-20070515-0001 (AT) plethora (DOT) net>, w8 <weidongtom (AT) gmail (DOT) com> writes Quote: Hi, I've just read some books on the programming language C, and I find I'm absolutely incompetent with any project. Please can anyone advice me how to improve my programming skills? Thanks It depends what sort of C programming you want to do. I.E. what sort of thing you want to program. C is widely used on embedded 8-128 bit systems, main frame, huge databases, PC applications, OS and RTOS, safety critical systems of all sorts. The help you need will be coloured by the area you want to program in. -- \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\ Chris Hills Staffs England /\/\/\/\/ /\/\/ chris (AT) phaedsys (DOT) org www.phaedsys.org \/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ -- comp.lang.c.moderated - moderation address: clcm (AT) plethora (DOT) net -- you must have an appropriate newsgroups line in your header for your mail to be seen, or the newsgroup name in square brackets in the subject line. Sorry. Back to top Charlton Wilbur Guest Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 9:11 am    Post subject: Re: How to improve programming skill? Quote: "w8" == w8 <weidongtom (AT) gmail (DOT) com> writes: w8> Hi, I've just read some books on the programming language C, w8> and I find I'm absolutely incompetent with any project. Please w8> can anyone advice me how to improve my programming skills? Start with a good introductory book. Work your way through the book, reading it carefully and doing every exercise. When you run into something you can't figure out, ask a more experienced programmer. When you've finished working your way through the introductory book, get books on data structures and algorithms and work your way through those in a similar manner. Getting competent will probably take you at least a year, probably more like two or three, depending on how much time and effort you devote to it. There is no royal road. Charlton -- Charlton Wilbur cwilbur (AT) chromatico (DOT) net -- comp.lang.c.moderated - moderation address: clcm (AT) plethora (DOT) net -- you must have an appropriate newsgroups line in your header for your mail to be seen, or the newsgroup name in square brackets in the subject line. Sorry. Back to top John Dallman Guest Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 9:11 am    Post subject: Re: How to improve programming skill? In article <clcm-20070515-0001 (AT) plethora (DOT) net>, weidongtom (AT) gmail (DOT) com (w wrote: Quote: I've just read some books on the programming language C, and I find I'm absolutely incompetent with any project. Please can anyone advice me how to improve my programming skills? Thanks Think of a program you want. Start to write it. Whenever it seems to be getting too complicated, consider if there's some better way to do it. Repeat, but do not assume that what you're producing will automatically be of interest to anyone else. -- John Dallman, jgd (AT) cix (DOT) co.uk, HTML mail is treated as probable spam. -- comp.lang.c.moderated - moderation address: clcm (AT) plethora (DOT) net -- you must have an appropriate newsgroups line in your header for your mail to be seen, or the newsgroup name in square brackets in the subject line. Sorry. 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