Alexander Dickson - Web Developer covering PHP, jQuery / Javascript, XHTML, CSS, more

Learning the C programming language

In my last post, I mentioned that I was going to undertake learning iPhone development. Whilst looking at the many online references, I decided I would go back a few steps and learn C before I moved onto Objective C.

C is quite similar to PHP in terms of syntax. That was the easy part. The hard part is obviously going from an interpreted dynamically typed language (PHP) to a compiled static typed language (C). So far, I have learn a lot of the syntax and basic ideas, but I'm finding it difficult learning how to program with a more low level language, with minimal helper functions.

I have also ordered a book, which seems to be a pretty definitive guide to C, that will hopefully get me on the fast track to getting the hang of things. It's called The C Programming Language, and by the looks of things it should help me a great deal.

Also, in determining where to go from "Hello World", I did come up with a good question to post to Stack Overflow, which as returned some interesting answers and ideas. I haven't chosen a suggestion from the answers, at this time, but once I'm more confident, I will definitely undertake a learning project.

I am enjoying the learning experience and hopefully can share some projects and tips over 2010.