[NTLUG:Discuss] Can you tell I'm a newbie?

[Steve Baker]

Wayne Dahl wrote:

> I appreciate the help with the C program...the book didn't make clear
> what I was supposed to be linking and gave an example of linking a
> program with library files, etc.  I now understand what he was trying to
> get at, but the book could have been a little clearer about what I was
> doing and why, especially with the example program it had me write. 
> Makes me wonder what else I'm going to come up against in the book that
> won't be clear that I won't get because I've never done this before.

The trouble with this part of these books is that they want to get you
started in on 'hello world' with the minimum of hassle.  However, before
you can get that first program to run, they have to explain all about
compiling it - which is a nasty, ugly thing that *really* doesn't need
to be spelled out in full until you start to worry about programs that
are split over multiple files.

Hence they fudge a quick handwave-ish explanation to get it out of the
way so they can explain all of the important first-ever-program stuff.

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