[sdiy] how to learn C?

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On 1/8/11 2:54 PM, "Scott Gravenhorst" <music.maker at gte.net> wrote:

> Looking at Dan's question - I didn't answer very well.
> 
> I can best answer by describing how I learned C.
> 
> First - Ya gotta wanna.  Seems to me Dan has that.
> 
> I used a book called _Learn_C_Now_.  I read the book while sitting at my
> computer.  As I read the book, I typed in and compiled a lot of the book's
> complete code, especially the little ones.  Then I messed with the code,
> compiled and tested it.  Did this many times until I could say to myself,
> "I understand this bit".  Then I wrote, from scratch and debugged little
> test programs, "Hello World" stuff of my own design.  Eventually, I was
> writing everything in C.  However - I did this on a PC for a PC processor.
> 
> Embedded work is a little different because you're dealing with hardware
> like DAC, ADC, serial device, LEDs, LCD, etc.  For this, you use libraries
> and it becomes a matter of function calls.  Here I would also start with
> "hello world" stuff first.  See if you can blink an LED at exactly 1 second
> intervals forever.  Stuff like that.  Write simple code to test different
> I/O devices you have.  Never give up.
> 
> -- ScottG
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Hi Folks,

I think learning Embedded C , C++ etc. is also a topic to search Google
with.

I wish we still had a Freescale printing company , as we used to have a ton
of books written on C programming Microcontrollers whilst back in the good
ol' Motorola days.

So much for my 2 cents.

Terry