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- From: paul@grafix.wlink.nl (Paul Weterings)
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- Subject: Good programmers/sources was: What's
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- Date: Tue, 06 Sep 94 01:27:41 GMT+1
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- In a message of 03 Sep 94 Arno Eigenwillig wrote to All:
-
- >> Trouble
- >> is, especially in C's case, I don't know how to go about it; I've seen
- >> books that teach C, but all the *interesting* stuff (like Amiga graphics
- >> and sound) are, naturally, not covered, being modules one must include.
-
- AE> I am not convinced by those "learn C on the Amiga" books. From my
- AE> personal experience in learning C, you are better of with learning plain
- AE> ANSI C from a good tutorial like K&R2 [1], and then resort to the
- AE> official OS documentation [2] from C= for Amiga-specific stuff.
-
- I agree completely, but just to add my 2 cents: _After_ you've done all the
- work on the 'standard' C and Amiga-specific code from the C= manuals, looking
- to sources of other people also enlighted me quite a lot.
-
- There are several people (some here on the net) that produce some _very_ good
- code that made me learn quite a lot of things that I would never have found in
- the books. Not so much the 'tips and tricks' or hardware-bashing as the way
- they program, the way the code is formeed, and documented.
-
- As a matter of speaking their freely distributable sources are sort of a
- 'expert manual' Even better that some others I could mention, since examples
- are at hand any time ;-)
-
- To name some of the names that stand high on my list as 'good programmers', and
- of who's sources I have learned:
-
- ( In no particular order )
-
- Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel - Term
- Christian Weber - Iff.library
- Jan van den Baard - GadToolsBox, BGUI
- Markus Aalto - Popup gadget Class
-
- And ofcourse for the Amiga-specific-code beginners:
-
- Anders Bjerin - C-manual
-
- (Only the ones who's sources I've been studying, ofcourse there are more good
- programmers, but we are talking about source code here)
-
- I can advise their source to anybody, please feel free to add some names to the
- list, ofcourse I have not seen everything there is.
-
- I often find myselve looking in their sources to see how they solved a certain
- problem. Especially Term is a great program to learn from. Ofcourse one's
- programmers solution doesn't have to be _the_ solution, so I prefferably
- double-check somebody else's source to find a other solution to the same
- problem. I very often find myselve using the program 'grep' of 'search' when
- programming ;-)
-