ghostrssThe Little Book of C
Another very fine online reference for someone new to C is Beej's Guide to C Programming: https://beej.us/guide/bgc/
(Here is a reference to K&R, the standard first reference to C, because I am obligated to make such a reference.)
And the K&R reference is useful too. It's a small book about a small language that does not have many features and maps to very basic concepts on hardware that really only does very basic things.
It's so cool! Do you have a similiar resource about c++?
I always find, whenever I loan Peter Van der Lindens’ “Deep C Secrets: Expert C Programming” book to a fellow colleague, I never get it back. For a while I had 10 or so spare copies to hand out as treats, but now I just refer everyone to this PDF:
https://progforperf.github.io/Expert_C_Programming.pdf
If you’re a C programmer, old or new, and haven’t encountered this book: Stop What You Are Doing And Go Read It! It’s amazing.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45448525
The HN of 5 months ago was apparently less receptive to anything made involving LLMs than they are today.
Another option might be that Nth pass LLM output is not as good as (N+5 months)th pass LLM output. At some point before the amount of effort involved reaches that required to do it oneself, the output will reach an acceptable quality level... or so you'd hope, if any of this business is to make any sense.
I wonder how many hallucinated wrong facts are in there. It looked like a good resource until I learned its LLM generated. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45479268
I wish someone spoon fed me how to add path for C compilers in Windows back in the day. We lose a good 90% of people to installing C from ever learning C. Feel like godbolt or an online compiler might be a reasonable starting place these days. C is amazing but can be so punishing early on compared to stupid opening up any text editor on earth and writing an HTML file. Not advocating for more JS learning but it's hard to beat the getting started on that.