C for high level programmers (slides)

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Post by harel » Sun, May 31, 2015, 7:26 PM UTC

C for high level programmers (slides)
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Re: C for high level programmers (slides)

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Post by htor » Sun, May 31, 2015, 9:17 PM UTC

I feel C is best summarized in these two slides:

http://charliethe.ninja/slideshow/introtoc.html#22 http://charliethe.ninja/slideshow/introtoc.html#25

Re: C for high level programmers (slides)

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Post by rorykoehler » Sun, May 31, 2015, 10:18 PM UTC

C was my first language and I find knowing it makes me a better programmer in higher level languages. Apart from that though a great intro.

Re: C for high level programmers (slides)

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Post by joshuapants » Sun, May 31, 2015, 10:21 PM UTC

I just about died laughing at slide 22. Anybody know how these slides were made?

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Post by billforsternz » Sun, May 31, 2015, 10:22 PM UTC

I was quite impressed how many important concepts are covered in such a small presentation. He explicitly doesn't cover the things in C that programmers from other domains will understand easily (functions, conditionals, loops etc.) and goes straight to the things that make C different.

Re: C for high level programmers (slides)

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Post by vezzy-fnord » Sun, May 31, 2015, 10:29 PM UTC

command line utility development, writing a replacement to systemd

Those don't require direct use of C, necessarily - but rather some form of FFI to POSIX and the syscall interface. Hell, if one is writing a systemd replacement, I'd encourage use of OCaml. It'd spare you lots of boilerplate because you're writing relatively high level userspace logic, anyway.

Re: C for high level programmers (slides)

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Post by charlesL » Sun, May 31, 2015, 10:33 PM UTC

joshuapants wrote: post #4

I just about died laughing at slide 22. Anybody know how these slides were made?

Hey author of the slides here, glad you liked it :D

I used http://remarkjs.com/ to make the slides. All you have to do is include the script, add a textfield with your content in markdown and it automatically converts to a slide show.

Re: C for high level programmers (slides)

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Post by pjmlp » Sun, May 31, 2015, 10:41 PM UTC

vezzy-fnord wrote: post #6

command line utility development, writing a replacement to systemd Those don't require direct use of C, necessarily - but rather some form of FFI to POSIX and the syscall interface. Hell, if one is writing a systemd replacement, I'd encourage use of OCaml. It'd spare you lots of boilerplate because you're writing relatively high level userspace logic, anyway.

Yep!

Unix system programming in OCaml - https://ocaml.github.io/ocamlunix/

Re: C for high level programmers (slides)

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, May 31, 2015, 10:49 PM UTC

joshuapants wrote: post #4

I just about died laughing at slide 22. Anybody know how these slides were made?

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Re: C for high level programmers (slides)

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Post by charlesL » Sun, May 31, 2015, 10:50 PM UTC

vezzy-fnord wrote: post #6

command line utility development, writing a replacement to systemd Those don't require direct use of C, necessarily - but rather some form of FFI to POSIX and the syscall interface. Hell, if one is writing a systemd replacement, I'd encourage use of OCaml. It'd spare you lots of boilerplate because you're writing relatively high level userspace logic, anyway.

Huh, I've never actually heard of using OCaml for system programming. Interesting!