<html><head></head><body><div>A leader/teacher who is conversant in C is needed. Any volunteers?</div><div><br></div><div>Etherpad can be used as a group code page/scratch pad.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm interested as well. I think the only C book I have is K&R. Oh. I found some others: 4th ed C reference (Osborne) and an old course book "Problem solving & program design in C" and O'Reilly "Practical C programming" and "Mathematical functions in C" (I have that in fortran as well).</div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 12:25 -0500, Boris Borisov wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr">I'm for the idea. Someone should lead though or just set the goals for next week.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 25, 2015 11:53 AM, "leam hall" <<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com">leamhall@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hey Boris!<br><br></div>One of the biggest challenges learners face is encouragement. Others are accountability, feedback, and resources. <br><br></div>So our "weekly meeting via electrons" might be me saying my goal is to work on Chapters 5 and 6 for the book I'm in. I happen to know those two chapters are memorization so it's a matter of making and using flash cards. Next week you ask me how well I did on my goals. We congratulate each other for doing well, make new goals, and enjoy life. <br><br></div>What if we don't make our goals? Okay, we set new ones based on what we think is reasonable. If we get really stumped by a problem we can talk it out to see if that helps us get past the hurdle, or we can go research what char **s[] means, or whatever. Having others to help and encourage seems to help people learn. <br><br></div>Make sense? I'm sure we can find some folks here who could clarify things for us but I think we will make better progress if we struggle together a little before reaching out.<br><br></div>Leam<br><br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Boris Borisov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com" target="_blank">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr">How do you see this join learning to take place. Just asking. I could join for learning not relearning.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Nov 25, 2015 9:34 AM, "leam hall" <<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com" target="_blank">leamhall@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>I'm looking to re-learn C. My goal is to spend the next 90 days working through "Learn C the Hard Way". Anyone up for joining me? Pick your own book or get the same. Don't expect miracles but commit to a few minutes 3-5 times a week.<br><br></div>Anyone? Buhler?<br><br></div>Leam<br clear="all"><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div><div><a href="http://leamhall.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mind on a Mission</a></div></div>
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