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Beej's Guide to C Programming [pdf]

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Re: Beej's Guide to C Programming [pdf]

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Post by jjice »

Beej is an incredible author. His networking guide is not only succinct and informative, it's also very funny. He's got a great writing style.

There was a thread a month or two back showing off some more of his guides, including this one. Going to download some of these for a long flight coming up. Huge thank you to Beej for the incredibly high quality content at no cost. There's also a paperback of at least the network programming guide available to support (great gift to give to a junior engineer).

Re: Beej's Guide to C Programming [pdf]

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Post by Amorymeltzer »

Previous discussions with notable engagement:

- Feb 2023, 284pts, 64 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34946811>

- March 2023, 115pts, 37 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35338074>

- April 2021, 507pts, 172 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26911399>

- September 2017, 427pts, 79 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15198093>

Worth noting that there are changes on a regular basis: https://github.com/beejjorgensen/bgc>

Re: Beej's Guide to C Programming [pdf]

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Post by zabzonk »

jjice wrote: post #3

Beej is an incredible author. His networking guide is not only succinct and informative, it's also very funny. He's got a great writing style. There was a thread a month or two back showing off some more of his guides, including this one. Going to download some of these for a long flight coming up. Huge thank you to Beej for the incredibly high quality content at no cost. There's also a paperback of at least the netw…

All guides, all well worth reading: https://beej.us/guide/

Re: Beej's Guide to C Programming [pdf]

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Post by sdsd »

I learned about beej when I started the Vortex wargame on OverTheWire (https://overthewire.org/wargames/vortex/vortex0.html). I emailed him about an error in the part about loops, and he told me he'd fix it, but never did. Only years later when I got nostalgic and went to reread that part of his guide, did I realize there had never been a bug, I'd simply misunderstood the code, and he had humored me.

I'm such a huge beej fan.

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