For example, the first formal programming course I took (well, other than BASIC back in fourth grade) was Harvard's CS50, which you can take for free.

Mastering the C programming language - a classic code environment used to build software, apps, and whole operating systems - is a great skill, and Mac OS X makes it easy to learn.

A series of examples, written in C, shows readers how to exploit the parallelism available in an FPGA-based platform. Later chapters have examples of how a streaming programming model can further ...