Ask HN: Why are there so few good resources for learning C in 2021
3 by sotrashy | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Every C book I crack open reads like a reference manual that presets some syntax and then shows its usage in some toy five-line program. Rinse and repeat until every feature is covered. Why are there no books that teach you the concepts by building something somewhat substantial from scratch? I can pick up books on Python or Go that teach you the language while building an entire REST API. C++ has books that teach you its features while building games. C seems to lack really good learning resources and I can't imagine why for a language so ubiquitous. Does anyone know of any C resources where you learn by doing? It doesn't have to be some crazy project, just beyond the single file toy programs I keep seeing.