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Contents 1 Primary materials 1.1 How to help us, help you 1.2 Stuff that should be avoided 1.3 Standards 1.4 Getting Started 1.5 Historic 1.6 References 1.6.1 Man pages 2 Secondary materials 2.1 Programming Paradigms 2.2 Beyond Standard C 2.2.1 Microsoft Windows 2.2.2 Linux, POSIX and UNIX 2.2.2.1 W.Richard Stevens 3 Unreviewed links mentioned in the channel

Primary materials

How to help us, help you

• Code paste sites: http://ideone.com/ or http://codepad.org/

Stuff that should be avoided

[summarized from the main page]

• C Tutorial @ gokmen.selcuk.edu.tr.

• C Tutorial @ computer.howstuffworks.com.

• Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours @ aelinik.free.fr.

• C Language Course @ studytonight.com.

Standards

See The Standard for more informatio.

• A draft revision of C1X dated 2011-04-12 is avalible for download from the WG14 web site

• A draft revision of C9X dated 2007-09-07 is avalible for download from the WG14 web site

Getting Started

• Introductions to C
  • GNU C Programming Tutorial: http://crasseux.com/books/ctutorial/
  • Steve Holmes (ex-Uni Strathclyde), C Programming: http://www.strath.ac.uk/IT/Docs/Ccourse/
  • C Programming class notes: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/cclass/cclass.html
  • Some good C tutorials: http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/
  • An Introduction to C: http://cprog.tomsweb.net/cintro.html
  • Peter Norvig explains why learning to program in 21 Days is not a realistic goal.

• C Language FAQ: http://www.c-faq.com/

• Reading C Declarations: http://www.ericgiguere.com/articles/reading-c-declarations.html

• Event-Driven Programming: http://eventdrivenpgm.sourceforge.net/

• Dictionary of Algorithms & structures: http://www.nist.gov/dads/

• Linux Unicode programming: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linuni.html

Historic

• Programming in C: A Tutorial: http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-tutor.html

References

• C89/C90 Reference: the following links are broken: http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/c/ [http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/c/crit_pb.html (copyright)] [http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/c/_index.html (index)]

• C99 Reference: http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/standards
  • Draft of C99 with all corrigenda applied: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG14/www/docs/n1256.pdf

• The C Library Reference Guide: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/webmonkeys/book/c_guide/

• C (and other stuff) reference: http://www.nilosplace.net/C/Creference/C/mindxbdy.htm

• C89 Description: http://tkorrovi.sourceforge.net/c89.txt

Man pages

• FreeBSD:
  • http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi

• Linux:
  • http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/

• SUSv3:
  • http://www.unix.org/version3/

• Mac OS X:
  • http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/framework/manpages
  • http://www.osxfaq.com/MAN/Index/A.ws

• Minix
  • http://www.minix3.org/manpages/

Secondary materials

• ISO Working group: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/

• A summary of changes made by the 1999 Standard http://home.datacomm.ch/t_wolf/tw/c/c9x_changes.html

• Lysator Programming in C: http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/

• Solutions to K&R and some C snippets: http://uthcode.sarovar.org

• C for Smarties: http://www.torek.net/torek/c/index.html

• C of Peril: http://pldaniels.com/c-of-peril/

• The Function Pointer Tutorials: http://www.function-pointer.org

• A tutorial on pointers and arrays in C: http://pweb.netcom.com/~tjensen/ptr/pointers.htm (dead) wayback copy

• C Memory Management Tutorial: http://stoneship.org/journal/c-memory-management-and-you/

• Objects First : A First Course in Program Design using C: http://www.ee.uwa.edu.au/~roberto/teach/morris/Year1/CLP110/CLP_ToC.html

• Data Structures and Algorithms[ page in transit dec 2005 ]: http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/~morris/Year2/PLDS210/ds_ToC.html

• Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures: http://www.nist.gov/dads

• Collection of useful code: http://c.snippets.org/

• C/C++ Source Code Search Site: http://csourcesearch.net/

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, by Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman, aka Wizard Book: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

• MathWorld: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ Mathematical resources of all sorts.

• GCC: http://www.osborne.com/products/0072224053/0072224053_ch01.pdf

• GDB Tutorial: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~benjasik/gdb/gdbtut.html (dead link, archived here)
• GDB Tutorial: http://www.unknownroad.com/rtfm/gdbtut/gdbtoc.html

• Style Guides: http://chris-lott.org/resources/cstyle/, FreeBSD style guidelines

• C99 Rationale: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/C99RationaleV5.10.pdf

• Writing secure programs:
  • http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/secure.html
  • http://irccrew.org/~cras/security/c-guide.html

• Ramblings - A collection of posts about C, focusing on common misconceptions: http://ramblings.implicit.net/

Programming Paradigms

• OOP Is Much Better in Theory Than in Practice
• Various Papers Critisizing OOP
• Threading is Evil (select tutorial, coroutines, how to handle concurrent I/O)
  • http://threading.2038bug.com/index.html -- direct link is dead as of 2007-04-26
  • Internet Archive copy

([dho] I personally think the above page is silly, confusing multiplexing, asynch, and non-blocking i/o with each other and providing only one really decent reason that threads are evil: because programmers misuse them. Apart from that, it contains very nice links to several potential alternatives.)

Beyond Standard C

• Beej's Guide to Network, aka beej: http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/net/

• The C10K Problem, has info on various techniques to handle sockets, and discusses problems when dealing with a very large number: http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

• Predefined macros given for various combinations of platform/OS/compiler: http://predef.sourceforge.net/

Microsoft Windows

• MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/
• James Brown's tutorials/code examples: http://www.catch22.net/
• theForger's Win32 API Programming Tutorial http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/

Linux, POSIX and UNIX

• Beej's Guide to IPC: http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/ipc/

• POSIX threads programming: http://www.llnl.gov/computing/tutorials/pthreads/

• SUSv3 (aka POSIX) standard: http://www.unix.org/version3/

• UNIX Programmers FAQ: dead via wayback machine

• How to create libraries/modules on Linux/*nix: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/
  • How To Write Shared Libraries - techniques regarding ELF(used on most *nixes) shared objects: http://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf

• UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html

• Porting Linux applications to 64-bit systems: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-port64.html

W.Richard Stevens

• Advanced Programming in the UNIX(R) Environment, aka APUE, web site

• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols, web site

• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation, web site

• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX Domain Protocols, web site

• UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1, 2nd edition: Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI, aka UNP1, web site

• UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2, 2nd edition: Interprocess Communications, aka UNP2, web site

• UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1, 3rd edition: The Sockets Networking API, web site

Unreviewed links mentioned in the channel

• Debugging with GDB: http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/gdb/gdb_toc.html

• C Programming Notes: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/cclass/notes/top.html

• POSIX threads explained, part 3 - Condition Variables: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-posix3

• File System Hierarchy Standard (FHS) - Overview: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/s1-filesystem-fhs.html

• The C Book, 2nd edition, by Banahan, Brady and Doran: http://publications.gbdirect.co.uk/c_book

• Learn the essentials of debugging: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-debug.html?ca=dgr-lnxw16Dbug

• Valgrind 2.2.0 - Memory Debugging and Profiling: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7930

• C Language Data Types - An Understandable Guide for Beginners: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=350919

• Open Source Licenses: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/18/licenses.html

• SQLite Tutorial: http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/9663

• Journals related to Computer Science: http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=114

• Shell Programming Tutorial - Helpful for Makefiles

• Sorting -- not written in C but provides a 'feel' for how each kind of sort works. Requires browser Java functionality.

• Resources for blind programmers of C (and C++): http://www.blindprogramming.com/c.htm

• The Art of Unix Programming, aka TAOUP, by Eric S. Raymond: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/

• POSIX: http://www.knosof.co.uk/posix.html

• unix programming tutorials (with gnu tools) and posix help: http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/

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