<div dir="ltr">Hi Morgan,<div><br></div><div>I would probably not bother with books, or You Tube videos, or any of that. Indeed, I'd be hard pressed to bother with C, these days, but still.</div><div><br></div><div>Assuming you have some programming experience outside of C, then I'd plunge into some open source project that interests you, and lean very heavily on AI to explain the code and suggest how to fix things. The likes of Copilot have seen a vast amount of C, and can guide you through it easily enough.</div><div><br></div><div>The major problem with C as a language is that the standard library is so poor by modern language standards - no containers or other advanced data structures, for example - that it's astonishingly difficult to "learn C", and much easier to (for example) "learn GTK+", or even learn how C is used within one particular program.</div><div><br></div><div>Still, you might find this useful: <a href="https://en.cppreference.com/w/c">C reference - cppreference.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>Dave.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 10:03, Morgan Green via Swlug <<a href="mailto:swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk">swlug@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="auto">I am very new to programming, but I want to start out on C to grasp the fund<span>amentals of all programming lan<span>guages. Can anyone recommend me any paperbooks on C programming that is suitable for complete beginners?</span></span></div>
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<div dir="auto"><span><span>Ki<span>nd regards,</span></span></span></div>
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