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this is kinda off topic, but seems like a good thing to have.

i want to learn C. i think several other people want to to. but i need some good C tutorials. google is pretty useless for this. what do you suggest.

Well, once you get the basic syntax, the best way is by practice and tutorials for specific libraries. (i.e. gtk tutorials)

Here's a couple of links to what looks like ok tutorials for learning the basics (in vague order of my opinion of quality, but that's just my opinion):
http://vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu/reso ... l/toc.html
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~yap/prog/c/
http://crasseux.com/books/ctutorial/index.html#Top
http://pbpl.physics.ucla.edu/Computing/C_Tutorial/ (remember to look at the "Section navigation" thingy on the left)
http://cplus.about.com/od/beginnerctuto ... blctut.htm

Also, if you want an IDE for windows, I would suggest Dev C++ (like most C++ things, it works for normal C too): http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html
Though I and many other people here do prefer deving under linux

thanks for the tutorials. i dont have windows so ill use vim of gedit or mousepad.

Ok, for some reason I was thinking you used windows. For editors, I would suggest either nedit or gedit (those are the two ones I primarily use), but it's up to you.

gedit, vim, kate, whatever i type first. theyre all the same.

to start with C, the Kernigan & Ritchie the C programming language is the best I know.

i was hoping for a website, i looked at red's first one, and that seems good so far.

bencha wrote:to start with C, the Kernigan & Ritchie the C programming language is the best I know.

He[l yeah! I got that book too!

sorry, it's Kernighan

with this book, you learn what you can do and how it works. i rediscovered C with it. or beter, i discovered what the others manual writers didn't or couldn't explain.