Hey everyone! Recently, I decided to learn to use the C programming language. I had a few reasons for doing so: A lot of very good programmers say that learning C will help you be a better programmer While it is not used as much as it once was, it is still a very significant language, especially ... More on itsfoss.community

I've posted this here before and it's what has worked for me an a few others who told me it worked for them as well. Ymmv. People sometimes struggle with C when they start from scratch or come from a higher to lower level of abstraction. I struggled with this for a long time till I did these things: I would not try and understand how the higher level abstractions translate to the lower C level. I would instead learn from first principles on how a computer works and build the abstractions up from there. You will learn how a CPU works. How the data bus and registers are used. How memory is laid out and accessed. The call stack and how that works, etc.. This will go a long way in understanding how C sits on top of this and how it's data structures like arrays and structs map to this and understanding how pointers work the way they do and why. Check out these resources: Read Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software Watch Exploring How Computers Work Watch all 41 videos of A Crash Course in Computer Science Take the Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris (Project-Centered Course) Take the CS50: Introduction to Computer Science course. Grab a copy of C programming: A Modern Approach and use it as your main course on C. Follow this Tutorial On Pointers And Arrays In C The first four really help by approaching C from a lower level of abstraction (actually the absolute lowest level and gradually adding layers of abstraction until you are at the C level which, by then is incredibly high!) You can do all four or pick one or two and dive deep. The 5th is a great introduction to computer science with a decent amount of C programming. The sixth is just the best tutorial on C. By far. The seventh is a deep dive into pointers and one of best tutorial on pointers and arrays out there (caveat, it's a little loose with the l-value/r-value definition for simplicity sake I believe.) https://github.com/practical-tutorials/project-based-learning#cc Play the long game when learning to code. You can also check out Teach Yourself Computer Science Here is a decent list of 8 Books on Algorithms and Data Structures For All Levels More on reddit.com

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C has some serious shortcomings that make it impractical or uncomfortable to use for many tasks. I wouldn't want to do, for example, web development in C. As for improving C, that happens but extremely slowly. C is rather unique in that it is a foundational language for just about every computer on the planet from the microcontroller in your electric toothbrush to the largest supercomputers. There are tens or hundreds of compilers in daily use. Every change to the language upsets someone and takes years to get through the standardization process. This is not necessarily a bad thing, C should evolve very conservatively. More on reddit.com