[ale] [OT] Anyone up for a 90 Day Wonder Challenge?

[leam hall]

I have the 2nd ed of K&R. Zed makes the recommendation to do that one after
his. I've always found K&R to be good when I understood it but there were a
lot of bits I didn't get.

It would be great if we get a sage/mentor/leader/teacher who is good in C.
I'm pressing forward either way, though.

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> A leader/teacher who is conversant in C is needed. Any volunteers?
>
> Etherpad can be used as a group code page/scratch pad.
>
> I'm interested as well. I think the only C book I have is K&R. Oh. I found
> some others: 4th ed C reference (Osborne) and an old course book "Problem
> solving & program design in C" and O'Reilly "Practical C programming" and
> "Mathematical functions in C" (I have that in fortran as well).
>
> On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 12:25 -0500, Boris Borisov wrote:
>
> I'm for the idea. Someone should lead though or just set the goals for
> next week.
> On Nov 25, 2015 11:53 AM, "leam hall" <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Boris!
>
> One of the biggest challenges learners face is encouragement. Others are
> accountability, feedback, and resources.
>
> So our "weekly meeting via electrons" might be me saying my goal is to
> work on Chapters 5 and 6 for the book I'm in. I happen to know those two
> chapters are memorization so it's a matter of making and using flash cards.
> Next week you ask me how well I did on my goals. We congratulate each other
> for doing well, make new goals, and enjoy life.
>
> What if we don't make our goals? Okay, we set new ones based on what we
> think is reasonable. If we get really stumped by a problem we can talk it
> out to see if that helps us get past the hurdle, or we can go research what
> char **s[] means, or whatever. Having others to help and encourage seems to
> help people learn.
>
> Make sense? I'm sure we can find some folks here who could clarify things
> for us but I think we will make better progress if we struggle together a
> little before reaching out.
>
> Leam
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How do you see this join learning to take place. Just asking. I could join
> for learning not relearning.
> On Nov 25, 2015 9:34 AM, "leam hall" <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm looking to re-learn C. My goal is to spend the next 90 days working
> through "Learn C the Hard Way". Anyone up for joining me? Pick your own
> book or get the same. Don't expect miracles but commit to a few minutes 3-5
> times a week.
>
> Anyone? Buhler?
>
> Leam
>
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