How to learn C

There is no way around the fact that C is a difficult language. It has many concepts that are unfamiliar, and it makes no attempts to help a new user. In this book I am not going to cover in detail things like the syntax of the language, or how to write loops and conditional statements.

I will, on the other hand, show you how to build a real world program in C. This approach is always more difficult for the reader, but hopefully will teach you many implicit things a traditional approach cannot. I can’t guarantee that this book will make you a confident user of C. What I can promise, is that those 1000 lines of code are going to be packed with content - and you will learn something worthwhile.

This book consists of 16 short chapters. How you complete these is up to you. It may well be possible to blast through this book over a weekend, or to take it more slowly and do a chapter or two each evening over a week. It shouldn’t take very long to complete, and will hopefully leave you with a taste for developing your language further.