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- From: pdh@netcom.com (Phil Howard )
- Subject: Re: Can you program in C?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.214509.4088@netcom.com>
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- References: <00963BF4.675CEA80@vms.csd.mu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:45:09 GMT
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- 2644danticoj@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
-
- >My name is Cetera and I am new to this network. I am anxiously awaiting
- >graduating Marquette this December, but there is an obstacle in my way. I must
- >first pass this math class in which I must program in C. I don't know this
- >language, and now must write several programs before the end of the year. The
- >course teaches data structures, which I have no problems understanding.
- >However, all homework is programmed in C and because of an adminstrative
- >loop-hole, I was enrolled in the class with no knowledge of the needed
- >programming language. So, can you help me write these programs, thereby
- >allowing me to graduate and go on to serve my country as an officer on a
- >nuclear submarine? Please???? My future depends on it. By the way, I will be
- >using a UNIX machine with a STUDSYS compiler. Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- Maybe someone MIGHT **help** but people will NOT do your programming FOR YOU.
- Some of the other replies should make this very obvious.
-
- Buy a good book on C programming and study it and learn it. I first learned
- C in just one week from the original K&R, I would not be trustable with a
- nuclear sub, so you should be able to do it in just a couple nights.
-
- I am serious! Study it!
-
- There are a lot of "dusty corners" and "pitfalls" in C. As you encounter
- these things trying to learn it, first make an exhaustive effort to find
- out just what is happeing (print out the values of variables and stuff).
- Then if you remain puzzled, go ahead and ask specific questions on the net
- and include the full code (of a small program) that is puzzling.
-
- Be sure the FAQ does not address the issue. You should get and print a
- copy of the C language FAQ, too, to have alongside your C book, to help
- you through the tricky parts.
-
-
- >Problem statement
- >*****************
-
- The rest of your posting is irrelevant.
-
- When you are in over your head, you have 3 choices:
-
- 1. Stay there and die.
- 2. Swim to the surface to breath and live.
- 3. Depend on someone else to save you.
-
- Remember, that if you choose number 3, you are depending on someone else
- who has chosen number 2.
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