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Originally Posted by guitarscn
Are there any books that are more noob-friendly that want to learn C as their first language?
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The first question to answer is why do you want to learn C programming? What is your goal?
Without being able to answer these questions, you may dabble at it for awhile, & as life continually presents issues which have to be dealt with immediately, further study will get pushed back, & back, & back again. Ultimately, nothing gets accomplished.
All languages have their learning curves, & understanding one's first language will be the hardest. From reading most of your posts over the last two years, I gather that programming isn't directly related to whatever you do professionally. That's fine, but for those outside of the industry, it is even more important to have a tangible goal in which you are wanting to surmount.
If your goal is to fix sound on your MacPro as discussed on
misc@, that is a highly ambitious goal. To get from A to B will require a significant amount of time & dedication. You can expect full understanding to take months to years depending upon how effectively you attack the problem, & how much time you have to commit to this particular endeavor.
With no understanding of what your goals are, my suggestion is to start with something like Python first & learn to write increasingly more sophisticated code there. The learning curve is somewhat less steep in comparison to systems-level C programming, & you can become productive more quickly.
Yet to reiterate the main point, unless you have a specific problem you are wanting to solve, you could easily fall into the trap of getting nowhere.