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Posted by Jake Nisenboim
Jake Nisenboim
3,374 Points

Where to learn C ?

Hi,

I am wanting and needing to learn the C programming language .

I wonder where the best or suggested places to learn are ?

Lynda.com? Wibit.net?

Thanks a lot!

2 Answers

Gavin Ralston
Gavin Ralston
28,770 Points
Gavin Ralston
Gavin Ralston
28,770 Points

CS50 is probably one of the best tutorials ever for starting out with C. The lectures and the additional videos are great.

It somehow manages to give you a fairly thorough introduction to C and computer science in general without either being a "don't worry about the compiler, it's magic, we'll teach more later" patronizing course, nor is it a "i had to learn it through arcane man pages and searching through newsgroups and listservs, and you better too" hard knocks class. Which is generally how almost all other free C tutorials are polarized. :)

Jake Nisenboim
Jake Nisenboim
3,374 Points

I had no idea CS50 taught C ! Thank you sir ! I got myself a trial of Lynda.com and checking out their C tutorial as well. I appreciate the help !

james white
james white
78,399 Points
james white
james white
78,399 Points

Some other ideas:

Stanford C language programming lectures list:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD28639E2FFC4B86A

MIT Open Courseware Practical C course:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-087-practical-programming-in-c-january-iap-2010/

A little more updated C/C++ course:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-s096-introduction-to-c-and-c-january-iap-2013/

Udemy's C language beginners course:

https://www.udemy.com/c-programming-for-beginners/