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Zed Shaw
Personal blog · c.learncodethehardway.orgprogrammingwriting
Zed Shaw writes Learn C the Hard Way, a personal blog at c.learncodethehardway.org about programming and writing. Since 2011, 78 different Hacker News readers have linked it 92 times, most often “Learn C The Hard Way A Clear & Direct Introduction To Modern C Programming”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Learn C The Hard Way A Clear & Direct Introduction To Modern C Programming30 people · 31 mentions · first linked 2011-10-07
- Learn C The Hard Way11 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2011-09-01
- Deconstructing K&R C (2010)9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2013-01-05
- Exercise 20: Zed's Awesome Debug Macros7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-09-30
- Learn C The Hard Way5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-07-09
- Zed's Awesome Debug Macros3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-10-16
- Exercise 27: Creative and Defensive Programming3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-05-24
- Deconstructing "K&R C"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-10
- Deconstructing K&R C2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-11
What Hacker News says?
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on “My time with Rails is up”Submitted Learn C The Hard Way as a story · 220 points
HN discussionI'm in the same boat as you. I've been working through Learn C The Hard Way [1] as a way to learn some of these concepts. I've been finding it incredibly valuable/rewarding. That said, even the author of LCTHW (Zed Shaw) recommends writing in languages other than C. He specifically mentions Go, Swift, and Rust. Check out his rant on K&R C at the end of LCTHW for his thoughts on your question: http://c.learncodetheha…
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on “Rust for Python Programmers”Submitted Deconstructing K&R C (2010) as a story · 149 points
HN discussionI've been enjoying Zed Shaw's Learn C the Hard Way http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
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on “The descent to C”Submitted Deconstructing K&R C Is Dead (2015) as a story · 131 points
HN discussionI really enjoy this presentation. If you want to learn C programming from scratch I also recommend to study Zed's book "Learn C the hard way". http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
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on “Deep C”Submitted Deconstructing "K&R C" as a story · 118 points
HN discussionA lot of people tend to recommend Zed Shaw's "Learn C The Hard Way"[0] but I would love to hear what others have to say. 0 - http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
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on “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C (2013)”Submitted Deconstructing K&R C (2010) as a story · 49 points
HN discussionI was wondering how this compares with or compliments K&R, when I came across [this section][1] of the book that seems to slap it in the face. Here's a section from the second paragraph: You see, "K&R C" is actually riddled with bugs and bad style. Its age is no excuse. These were bugs when they wrote the first printing, and the 42nd printing. I hadn't actually realized just how bad most of the code was in this book…
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on “Learn C The Hard Way by Zed Shaw”Submitted Deconstructing K&R C as a story · 36 points
HN discussionIn case one does not want to spend $29, the free HTML book [1] (currently in beta) is good enough. I have been following along the book, and can vouch for it. It is a great way to learn to code in C. [1] http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ EDIT: By posting the link to the book, I by no means meant that the videos are redundant. I would love it if more people en-roll for Zed's Udemy course and support him.
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on “Learn C The Hard Way by Zed Shaw”Submitted Exercise 20: Zed's Awesome Debug Macros as a story · 18 points
HN discussionYour question is addressed by the author at the end of the book: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/learn-c-the-hard-waych...
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on “Learn C The Hard Way”Submitted Warning: Do not use an IDE as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThis calls to mind what Zed Shaw wrote about creative and defensive programmer mindsets. http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex27.html
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on “Too scared to write a line of code”Submitted Learn C The Hard Way as a story · 12 points
HN discussionalso suggested here http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex20.html
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on “Simple Dynamic Strings library for C”Submitted Zed's Awesome Debug Macros as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThis link gets posted on HN a lot but I've found it useful: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
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on “C vs GO”Submitted LCTHW - Data Structures and Algorithms as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI think the problem with learning C is that you need to learn stuff like make, autoconf, how the compiler + preprocessors work (what do all those flags even mean!?), how making "cross-platform" stuff works, how to pull in and use "libraries", C-isms, how to test, etc. C itself is a very small and simple language, but the tooling and patterns are old and mysterious. In college I learned how to program embedded system…
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on “C for high level programmers (slides)”Submitted Deconstructing ~K&R C~ as a story · 7 points
HN discussionMay I suggest that you also send them a link to Zed Shaw's "Learn C The Hard Way" online book [0], which presents lessons in modern C programming, including the use of tools like Valgrind, etc.? [0] http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
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on “C for high level programmers (slides)”Submitted Deconstructing "K&R C" as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThanks. I was first exposed to this in Zed's Learn C the Hard Way: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ . I think it's quite handy.
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on “Understanding C by learning assembly”Submitted Learn C the Hard Way as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNot exactly what you're looking for, but "Learn C The Hard Way"[0] isn't a bad tutorial... [0] http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
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on “Writing device drivers in Linux: A brief tutorial (2006)”Submitted Learning C the Hard Way - stable version as a story · 4 points
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