Learn C

Resources

• Beej's Guide to C
• Wikibooks: C Programming
• Learning C with GDB
• Angrave's C Crash Course
• Stanford Essential C
• BU CS Teaching

Virtues and Challenges

Virtues

• Fast, since it is a compiled language and it is "close" to the machine hardware.
• Portable, since you can compile the program to run on just about any hardware platform.
• Small, in terms of its size compared with C++.
• Mature, a long history and lots of resource and experience.
• Direct Access to Memory, malloc().
• Low-level System Feature Available.

Challenges

• Easiness level.
• Manage memory yourself.
• Verboseness.
• No Object-Oriented Programming.
• No runtime checking.

Reasons to Learn C

• Toptal: How to Learn the C and C++ Languages

Useful Links

• GDB Tutorial
• GDB Checking Memory Content