the C programming language.

Aside from toying around with BASIC as a child, C/C++ were my first programming languages. I started university planning to be an electrical engineer, but fell in love with programming when I got my hands on C. Playing around with memory pointers, while poring over the 3rd edition of Deitel & Deitel's C++ How to Program— computers just made sense! So I switched majors and studied computer science.

As I continued my college coursework, I picked up many other languages that were popular at the time (esp. Java), but none grabbed me quite the way that C did. Being able to touch the low level hardware felt like a superpower. It still does! Fortunately, all the low-level embedded computing work I do still uses C as the programming lingua franca.

Anyway, here's some reference material that I've found useful. I hope you will, too!

links.

• The C Programming Language, the seminal book by Kernighan & Ritchie (PDF).
• Beej's Guide to C.
• cppreference.com's section on C.
• wikibooks section on C programming.
• posix reference.
• a "hello world" project with makefile and manpage.
• writing portable makefiles.
• writing manual pages.
• developing software in a hostile environment.
• ncurses programming howto.
• getting started with GTK, a GUI toolkit for C.
• SDL api docs.
• SDL2 tutorials.
• getting SDL2 working on Windows with MSYS2.

notes.

• search cppreference using duckduckgo with "!cppr printf".
• run clang-format to tidy code in vim:
  :%!clang-format