[HN Gopher] The Little Book of C
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       The Little Book of C
        
       Author : ghostrss
       Score  : 53 points
       Date   : 2026-03-26 20:35 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | i_am_proteus wrote:
       | 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.)
        
         | pascahousut wrote:
         | 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.
        
         | melonFella wrote:
         | It's so cool! Do you have a similiar resource about c++?
        
         | MomsAVoxell wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | user982 wrote:
       | Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45448525
        
         | cwnyth wrote:
         | And it's _well_ worth reading this earlier discussion, too.
        
         | fsckboy wrote:
         | I wonder why that previous submission was "flagged"?
        
           | tolerance wrote:
           | The HN of 5 months ago was apparently less receptive to
           | anything made involving LLMs than they are today.
        
       | threethirtytwo wrote:
       | Ai is getting really good. I can't tell the difference anymore.
        
         | girvo wrote:
         | There are some very small tells, like the constant "rule of
         | threes" that AI loves to follow, but you're right that this is
         | much harder to tell than it used to be.
        
       | androiddrew wrote:
       | Wish they had this for zig
        
       | smusamashah wrote:
       | 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
        
       | robviren wrote:
       | 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.
        
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