I’m going through a book that deals with audio programming in C. The only languages I know at the moment are Java and Python haphazardly. There are still many things that are too abstract for me to understand but I can say, with great pleasure tonight, that pointers and arrays in C are not one of them.

Pointers in particular gave me a bit of an uneasy feeling as they were mentioned in the introduction chapter in the audio programming book. I felt I couldn’t progress because I hadn’t fully understood them and I know the dangers of copying code without complete understanding of it. There was one particular video that really hammered it down, supplemented with a great response by the creator of the video. The internet is truly a great place, when you can receive instruction from a person familiar with a strange concept at 12 am. I will leave a link to the video and the book I am working through at the bottom of the post.

I know that, due to my impulsiveness and lack of commitment, I may not commit to finishing this book but I want to chronicle the fact that, although my interests are fleeting, I can accomplish great things. I am very excited to be able to move on to the next section in this book and I hope that one day I will have worked through it, or a similar book, and be able to understand the underpinnings of how digital audio works in the computer. Good job, to me! 🙂

Here’s the video:

And here’s the book:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/audio-programming-book