Learning C
So I'm trying to learn C, and haven't yet had much success with it.
In fact, I haven't even got a minimal setup running yet, because I'm mixing up a lot of different compilers and environments.
My minimal requirements for starting with C are:
- Cross-platform compatible compilers
- Ability to stay on windows while developing (though I might make the switch to linux sometime)
- A library for making visual, interactive programs
- Apparently also a library that handles gui windows
Why?
I want to develop for multiple platforms because you can't ignore windows, and I won't even have anyone to test if I don't build for windows as well.I need to learn it with visual libraries because otherwise I will grow bored and frustrated really soon. So far I'm thinking of using cairo, since I'm already familiar with most of the paradigms used from using the canvas tag for the web.
So, what are you using?
- gVim for editing, but It's possible with almost any kind of text editor.
- Cygwin with windows-compatible compilers from Mingw
- Visual Studio 2017 for building every component that requires it
for example, for building a static version of cairo, I'm following this tutorial.
What I've learned so far
- Compiling simple C programs with mingw/cygwin
- Writing simple makefiles
I don't even know what kind of stuff I've yet to learn, since I haven't even started with most of the language itself yet. I'm new to strong typing, manual memory allocation/management and a whole lot of other concepts, I've never heard of by now.
Oh god, there's still one hell of a long way to go.
Part 2