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"Davo" <dgwood@optushome.com.au> wrote in message news:<3f433abc$0$10359$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>...
> Hello,
> 
> I am looking for active newsgroups, productive user friendly tutorials, good
> weblinks, and local private tutors (Melbourne Australia) in the programming
> language C. The two news groups athome.aus.programming  and
> athome.aus.programming.c++   dont seem to have much activity. Any
> information or advice will be much appreciated.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Dave

Australians are dumb idiots so it is a good idea not to look locally
for information/technology after all Australia has never been on the
for-front of anything.

I assume you are fairly new to programming to ask,and also consider
other factors you are looking for which no-one can ever teach you.
These are why I list the following free resources written by people
who wish to help with that problem no-body else can help with.


Bye one C book and you will get the idea(if you wonder why I say this
you may understand once you have done so)

Also Visit Bruce's site http://www.mindview.net however you possibly
already have and download his "Thinking in C++" Series,although not C
it teaches you allot and has some of the "productive" styles you talk
of.

Also visit ibiblio and download the "HowTo Think Like a Computer
Scientist" series of Books(great Idea to read these before Bruce's
Book)
As a quite competent programmer I found these book unreal,making
Bruce's books more like a Project management thinking system of
guidelines for that really big project.
http://www.ibiblio.org/collection/collection.php?second=e

Also for more information visit xml.com and have a read of "Linux
Device Drivers"
http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/
This book is based on C but more so describes its title but allot can
be learned which again was the idea of the book.


From my personal advise programming is more about your approach to
coding in general,so really there is no such thing as learning one
lang. once you learn the "Thinking" part all lang's just become a
challenge which are fun to play with,which you can implement when you
need.
Many fail to see this when reading the books I mentioned above,they
want all the work done for them(they are obviously the ones that write
FAQ's and troll through groups and live off the education system.)

The things that no-one can ever teach you are C keywords,operators,and
implementing uncommon libs which many books do try to teach you.
A book may be able to drill these operators and keywords into you head
but that is no good unless you have a structured self driven
proceedure to working with equations and common problems,which in the
end is a full understanding of exactly what you are working with.

Im not telling you,I have just slowly learned that this is the best
approach unless you are 10 years old and information is just a part of
life and you know no different.

-Take notes(pen and papper?)
-Know what you have at hand
-draw conculsions from your notes
-understand the current problem