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>>801797 (OP)

Which device is it?

>>801805

>Which device is it?

Speedlink Arcus drawing tablet. Got it a few years ago, but I never use it bc I got linux

>>801797 (OP)

>teach me a to be a productive

it would be a lot more productive to spend $100 on a wacom tablet than to spend $1000's in man hours on writing a driver.

or just pirate windows/mac and dual boot for your art.

>>801797 (OP)

>OP's pic

ここにゴミを捨てないで下さい。

Please don't throw trash here.

Read K&R then the CERT secure standard.

>>801812

>it would be a lot more productive to spend $100 on a wacom tablet than to spend $1000's in man hours on writing a driver.

>or just pirate windows/mac and dual boot for your art.

I don't art. And it's not about productiveness in general. It's about being productive in C, and the problem of one of my usb devices not being compatible with anything else than botnet OS. But thanks for tripping over semantics.

>>801797 (OP)

It is not worth the effort in my opinion. But if you insist, I eould learn it this way:

1. watch derek banas C tutorial series to get the general idea

2. go through Learn C The Hard Way, do exercises, but dont listen to authors advice, because he is retarded. still good exercises tho

3. Go through K&R slowly and do Daily Programming challenges at reddit (sort by top)

4. when you are comfortable enough with your skill, read Linux Device Drivers book, it is outdated by it will give you the general idea and help you research further

At this point you are looking at least a year of studying.

>>801797 (OP)

Are you wanting to distribute this driver? if not then you don't need to limit yourself to C. Writing the driver in userspace will save you quite a bit of headaches and let you use other programming languages like C++.

I haven't written any userspace USB drivers, only userspace drivers for PCIe devices, but from what I understand the process is far easier. Libraries like libusb should make things go smoothly http://libusb.info

>>801819

its fairly obvious they tried saying "dont dump shit here" but retards think its funny they got dump/dumb wrong

>>801797 (OP)

It would kind of suck because the project would end here, but have you verified that it doesn't work on Linux? If it is a USB HID compatible device it might already work.

>>801875

By the way, you can read part of it here https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/c/SEI+CERT+C+Coding+Standard

>>801866

I would add Expert C Programming by Peter van der Linden after K&R C.

>the CERT secure standard

Any way to read the full book without having to sign up?

>>802204

Ignore /tech/ webdevs, C is the best language to know. I'd just recommend learning by working on other people's code where the project has a rep for good code and it's a healthy section.

>>802276

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

go2 library or thrift store and make de purchase on a bookabout linux programming and el c language

Read 'Expert C Programming - Deep C Secrets', it really gets into the mest of things

I've been doing C for 30 years and would teach you personally in exchange for sexual favors.

>>802279

I second this. For all the shit it gets, systemd is very well designed and good to learn how to write idiomatic C from.

>>806424

I'd not use systemd as an example of C programming. The code is largely gccisms and has pushed clang to adopt a lot of them.

>>806426

gccisms are idiomatic C.

This Super FAQ is a good place to start for anyone wanting learn C as a first language anon.

https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/c#c-diffs

tl;dr

>don't.

>>806424

RhIDF please go.

>>801807

https://digimend.github.io/

it probably already works

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1393

>>801890

>Not going straight to K&R

>Daily Programming Challenges from reddit

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>>806987

>My main idea is that we need to teach C in a way that helps students understand why a very large fraction of critical software infrastructure, including almost all operating systems and embedded systems, is written in C, while also acknowledging the disastrously central role that it has played in our ongoing computer security nightmare.

Here's a better idea. Why don't they teach Ada and explain, in the same classes, why C is such a disaster? I already know why. There is a huge industry that depends on security consulting and other money-sucking wastes of time. Ada would actually solve the problem and C shills would be out of work.

>>806368

The biggest C meme there is. At least tell OP to get a book written in this decade.

>>816220

It's a good book. Almost nothing has changed with hardware in the past 40 years as far as a beginner is concerned so any low-level architecture book is still just as relevant as it ever was. Only advanced programmers are going to deal with things like vectorization and GPGPU. Most programmers never will.

>>816220

The fundamentals of C hasn't changed at all. Anybody who studies this book to a good level is more than capable to find modern C syntax and libraries on the Internet.