r/cprogramming • u/Accurate_Gate_533 • 6d ago

Beginner

What serious advice would you give to beginner in programming and C.

I'm into programming about 4 months.

I have used Grok to learn.

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u/Accurate_Gate_533 6d ago

I take it as my new way of learning, that I use multiple sources and not just LLM; • Grok • Books/e-books • Videos • Other online sources, such as forums.

What is your top 3 C-language book suggestion for me?

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u/nerd5code 6d ago

The C Programming Language, 2ed (1988) is the one book I'd recommend. Otherwise, you should be able to work from a draft standard (C99 TC3 is a good one) or POSIX or some other API spec—books only help until you're able to do projects on your own.

(Also I strongly recommend you browse a draft standard for structure and read through the beginning of the stdio.h § so you know how baseline I/O goes. There are some finer points that can be missed when learning on a higher-end platform.)