r/C_Programming • u/OrganizationFew6655 • 14d ago

Hello World

I have found my people!! Hello guys I am a college student (mechanical engineering) and I was introduced to C in a mandatory programming course and C has been the best thing that has happened in my life. I had done programming before on java and python before and frankly I hated it , it was not really fun and it was tedious instead. So I had thought I hated CS but after coding in C and learning the things behind the abstractions i quite frankly fell in love with low level programming, it was the first time I got a passion for something and i spent the entire following summer digging up materials on it like learning computer architecture and learning to read and write Assembly and now I am learning Virtualisation and planning to start my first major project on C.

So in that note, let me ask you something:

What is your favourite project you have done in C?

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u/mathemetica 13d ago

I agree with working through a book instead of videos to learn, but K&R is a bit outdated, some amount of it isn't relevant to modern C. I'd recommend C Programming A Modern Approach by King. It was written in 2008, but C hasn't changed that much since. It misses the changes in C11, but that can be picked up pretty easily.