Re^2: C tutorial for Perl programmers?

[QuarterToWhen]

That looks like a good start. I might leave pointer arithmetic for "if we have more time". I could probably spend a few days on that alone, likewise type promotion.

[Athanasius]

Also, don’t overlook these:

• definition vs. declaration
• the preprocessor: #define, conditional compilation, #include
• arrays and const
• struct, union, enum, and typedef
• the more commonly-used standard libraries: stddef.h, stdio.h, string.h, stdlib.h
• the different uses of static

Some more advanced topics for later:

• extern
• variadic functions
• long jumps

Also of practical help when teaching memory management: explain the meaning of “segmentation fault” and “bus error” — your student(s) will be seeing a lot of these! ;-)

Hope that helps,

[bulk88]

Dont leave pointer arithmetic for later. Teach it early. It was the hardest thing for me to understand when going from Perl to C, if a pointer is just a number, why is +2 way to far off to the right in memory? Do I have to do +0.5 to get to the first slice? (no, go learn pointer arthmitic)