So far so good, everything is moving along quite nicely. I've been taking time to revisit past code and slowly
add
more concepts, making sure that I understand completely what is going on with my code. Been experimenting with
nested loops, making columns, do loops, pointers/pointer dereferencing/pointer math, the continue function.
Sounds
like a lot doesn't it? For a beginner in some sense it is, but in the programming world I'm not even at 1% yet.
I have an analogy that may help give an idea of what my current progress is:
It's like a farmer that is learning the ropes of running a farm. The tools, planting crops, animal management etc... But then comes the application of using that knowledge. The farmer finds himself on an empty big field of hundreds of acres of land. From that point, to the point of running an actual farm is the real journey. I also understand that progress, especially with programming, is not linear. I'll be making thousands upon thousands of mistakes. That's why I'm not updating this website every day.
But to veer this entry to a more optimistic outlook, I am enjoying myself immensely and am making very good progress. I've been trying to find a good book to accommodate my learning, but many of these resources are quite dated. The C programming language is 50 years old after all! What I do now is simply watch dozens of tutorials of the same topic and make test applications to make sure I understand it, then move on. I'll show a pic of how I've organised things. I'm trying to find a good project to do for my skill level. Many of the projects I actually want to do require a much more better understanding of C (some of those projects are a lot harder to do in C).
