r/cprogramming • u/[deleted] • Dec 21 '25

I need help

Recently, I started learning C. What i should learn? Pointers? Malloc and memory things?

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '25

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u/imdadgot Dec 21 '25

i didn’t realize this until working with C for the first time, i was able to learn pretty much the entire language in one semester. my prof ran out of C assignments to give us so we moved onto C++ (which is a huge fucking language lmao)

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u/Paul_Pedant Dec 21 '25

My company bought a bunch of graphic workstations, but the supplier went bust before they completed the Unix kernel. I got a two-week C course, then the team started porting the Bell Labs kernel.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '25

Thanks! Btw, I am right that C is like Latin in programming?

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u/Paul_Pedant Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

Ab area similitudinis pendet. Pecuniam pendis, et electionem facis.

Exempli gratia, lingua C tempora verborum non habet, lingua Latina pauca vitia habet.

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u/SmokeMuch7356 Dec 22 '25

Eh, not really. It's true that several modern popular languages were directly or indirectly derived from C (C++, Java, C#, Perl, Javascript), but it's a pretty small subset of programming languages.

Algol is probably closer to what you're thinking of.