Re: AW: [Gc-linux-devel] Perfect excuse

[David R. <da...@it...>]

On 4 feb 2004, at 06.40, Lehner Franz wrote:

> you do not have to excuse.
>
> when i started working on Xbox-linux 1,5 years ago , i not even was
> able to programm C.
> my knowledge was only pascal, fortran and ada.
>
> but i learned quick, and a lot of people "helped".
>
> But there is sure enought work to do in the background, and if it is
> only writing documentation or something.
>
> Search something where your interest are, work there with the others.

Sounds great! I know C quite well, but I'm rather weak with assembler 
and hardware programming (although the limited knowledge I have of 
assembler is with the PowerPC).

To the person who asked how to learn C...I'd suggest getting at least 
one book that you can keep for reference while you're learning. It's 
been a number of years since I learnt C, so I don't have any concrete 
examples, but take a trip to the nearest computer book store, or study 
some reviews on Amazon. By far the most difficult hurdle in  learning C 
is the concept of the pointer*.  Once you grasp that, it should be 
downhill from there ;-)

/ Regards, David Remahl

* (matters further confused by Handles, which are pointers to pointers. 
Fortunately, they're not as ubiquitous in general programming as they 
are in traditional Mac OS programming. They confused the hell out of me 
a number of years ago ;)

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