I have a plan to get into some programming in future and C is one of the considerations and it’s very important language so I would like to ask if anyone programmer is in this community to suggest me some resources? I prefer video based courses but it sounds like books are very detailed sources of information then suggest what you know best.
Note: I know this isn’t a professional community for the subject but I know for good quality resources I have to pirate some shit so I asked the question here because the members probably have their resources from piracy so they can help me more; sorry for expecting too much from y’all but career is career.
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Imo the most legit thing to do is to read an old copy of “the c programming language” which is a guide written by the authors of C. The early editions were under 100 pages, super clear to understand, and you’ll feel connected with the mentality of the creators. C is a simple and elegant language, much less complex than most modern ones
Why the old copy? They screwed the book in new publishes?
It’s just like 4x longer for no real reason. The language just isn’t that hard, and I feel like they were cashing in on publishing a million new editions. C hasn’t changed much
Also, random plug for Go, which feels about as simple as C but tackles modern problems better (concurrency, amazing garbage collection, servers, world class tooling). Any C developer will feel comfortable with Go super quickly
I’ve never worked on a larger C project, so I’m not the best judge, but I would recommend 21st Century C by Ben Klemens. It was very accessible and gave me a pretty good understanding of how the language worked and how to use modern versions of it.
May be this is a personal thing but whenever I am trying to learn something new, I just go the old fashioned way and get myself books on that topic. A lot of love and attention goes into writing books,making them very detailed and elaborate and imo they are still the best way to learn something. Ebooks included.
There is a lot to learn from the comp.lang.c FAQ, and you don’t even need to pirate it.
Libgen works best for me, with effective C being a reasonable resource. You shouldn’t start with C though as your first introduction to memory managment. All resources will assume you know a fair deal about the subject first. I’d suggest you go for zig, or rust or if this is your first language, python, or c# if you want a real challange. C is not a good language to learn first.
