Re: learning c programming

["Justin C. Sherrill" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, January 3, 2006 11:02 am, Danial Thom said:

> IMO there is only one way to learn to program;
> get yourself a project. You'll need a reference
> book or web site, but until you try to tackle
> something fairly difficult you'll never be any
> good. During your project you'll encounter things
> that you don't know how to do, and you'll
> research and experiment and you'll learn how to
> do it.

That is the best strategy I've found.  Lesson books and so on, without a
teacher and the threat of a bad grade, are very ... unmotivating.

Set a goal, like "I want to be able to flash my keyboard lights when I
have new mail", and try to reach it.