[SlugLUG] Question on C

[Peter Belew]

Yes, K&R is a good choice.

Border's or Bookshop Santa Cruz would be a place to look. As always,
I recommend trying Bookshop Santa Cruz first - support local business!
They both have web sites.

Peter

On 10/10/06, Erich Blume <eblume at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> Yes, I've heard of Kernighan and Ritchie. What's the best way to get a copy?
> Border's downtown would probably carry it, I assume...
>
> Erich
> On 10/10/06 11:39 AM, "cerise at armory.com" <cerise at armory.com> wrote:
>
> > This question leads me to believe that you do not own the only C programming
> > book that anyone should ever buy:  Kernighan and Ritchie's "The C Programming
> > Language".
> >
> > The book is written by the guys who invented the language.  In its first
> > edition it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 pages.  Ritchie said
> > something like "C isn't a large language and wouldn't be served well by a
> > large text".
> >
> > And, of course, since the book details the invention of C along with the
> > development of UNIX, you get some insights there into the deal 8)
> >
> > Anyway, somewhere in there, they implement a hash table in C 8)
> >
> > -Phil/CERisE
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:55:18AM -0700, Erich Blume wrote:
> >> Problem is, while doing that, I completely forgot how to write C. I've
> >> re-trained myself up to the basics, but what I really want to do now is
> >> write a hash table implementation in C. I can't for the life of me figure
> >> out how to get started, though. I've written a few half-hearted structs,
> >> slapped down some frivolous typedefs, and even put in a few useless
> >> prototypes.
> >>
> >> So my question is: where can I get started for this particular project? Who
> >> knows of a good resource for easy to understand implementations of hash
> >> tables in C? If it's a book, that's fine, but it'd be better if you could
> >> point me to a web page or something.
> >>
> >> Also, something that's been bugging me is whether or not I should learn C++.
> >> Ever since I learned perl, I've been reluctant to learn C++, being as more
> >> or less the only time I ever plan on writing compiled code now will be to
> >> optimize. I'd rather optimize in C than C++. But I've been doing a lot of
> >> reading and it sounds like maybe that wasn't such a good appraisal. From the
> >> context of a computational biologist, what's the safer bet?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Erich
> >>
> >>
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