Absurd: programming

20120613   An Introduction to C, I   ⇢  

C is a computer programming language that was designed for the purpose of implementing system software. Today, it is still used for that task but is also used for implementing application software. C is insanely widely used. C is the bedrock of UNIX, Linu

20120616   An Introduction to C, II   ⇢  

Last time, we got into the absolute basics. This time, let's cover something more useful.

20120626   An Introduction to C, III   ⇢  

So, in this installment, let's talk about loops. So far, all you have had is sequences. Programs only consist of sequence, loop, selection, and data. Looking at it this way, you're nearly ready to call yourself a programmer. So, don't get discouraged.

20160705   An Introduction to C, IV   ⇢  

Programs are a lot more useful if users can interact with them. It is equally useful to be able to perform specific operations depending upon what input is gained from said users. That's the topic for this entry.

20120710   An Introduction to C, V   ⇢  

As you might imagine, a large series of conditional statements could get really tedious. Imagine a series of 20 if statements... and imagine typing that out. Very quickly, it would become very annoying. For this reason, C has the switch-break.

20120728   An Introduction to C, VI   ⇢  

Now for something odd.

20120815   An Introduction to C, VII   ⇢  

So far, I have thrown a lot of information at you very quickly. Let's recap with completely useless programs.

20120830   An Introduction to C, VIII   ⇢  

So far, we have already covered the use of the character data type, but what happens when you want to print more than one character to screen? This was strings are for.

20120910   An Introduction to C, IX   ⇢  

In the last post, I briefly introduced arrays and strings. Let's look a little more closely.

20130122   An Introduction to C, X   ⇢  

It's time for a cake walk. Here's an array of integers.

20150610   An Introduction to C, XI   ⇢  

Some time has passed since I last did anything with my C tutorial. This is largely due to work and having several different projects going at any one time (learning Chinese, developing a hobby OS, a gaming community, etc...). However, I felt that I ought

20150705   An Introduction to C, XII   ⇢  

So, in this part of the C Intro, I would like to say a bit about memory management.

20150823   An Introduction to C, XIII   ⇢  

We've covered a lot of ground with C so far. The big problem here is that we've not yet covered one of the most common tasks on a UNIX system. We have not covered files. So, let's look at files. For file I/O in C, you need a file pointer. We declare a fi