Re: [PIC] Learning C

My suggestions for what they are worth, is, assuming coding for a 
microcontroller, rather than a PC
is to first possibly decide which C compiler (and microcontroller 
manufacturer) you want to use and then find the online or perhaps one of 
the following books if they are still available.

As a very basic book then PIC C by Nigel Gardner ISBN 1-899013-04-0 - 
this uses HiTech C for Ic but as they made the Microchip C compiler 
(originally I believe) it'll work with the modern day  Xc8 etc.  It 
demonstrates pointers very well in my view.

FORED (Forest Electronics) produce an online downloadable learn C for 
their compiler. I think the above one is better thought for non C users.

As he is no longer with us this might require some searching but Peter H 
Anderson did a whole series of tutorials for Pic C using the CCS 
compiler taken from his university lectures.

There is also Embedded Design with the PIC18F452 Microcontroller by John 
B. Peatman ISBN 0-13-046213-6. Whilst this is not a 'learn C' book 
exactly, it does have code in assembler which is also written as a C 
program. So if you are the type of person that learns by code examples 
then this could be helpful. Note the C programs take up about 10 pages 
and the rest of the book uses assembler. He has code for Microchip C and 
CCS.

General C programming, if you can find the Microsoft C book from the 
1980s which they included when purchasing their C compiler is very well 
written and quite clear.

Their is also Learning to Program in C from good old Babani Publishing 
by N. Kantaris Babani # BP258 ISBN 0-85934-203-4.

If you want C for the 8052 processor and it's derivatives then their is 
a book by Sencer Yeralan and Helen Emery. The 8051 Cookbook for Assembly 
and C  and Programming and interfacing the 8051 Microcontroller in C and 
Assembly,  ISBN 0-9633257-0-1 and0-9633257-1-X.   When I purchased these 
books I had to sign a US export declaration that any code I wrote based 
on these books mustn't be exported to the then list of band countries - 
which seemed to me to be overkill.

Colin
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On 11/11/2024 04:29:38, "David C Brown" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Although I enjoy programming in Assembler, the fact that so many libraries
>abd code examples are in C I think that the time has come for me to learn
>that language.
>
>Any advice on how to do that would be welcomed, be it a book or online
>resources.
>I am a competent programmer having programmed in  with Forth, Fortran.
>\Pascal, Visual basic
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