Learn C the Hard Way: A Clear & Direct Introduction To Modern C Programming

This Book Is Not Really about C

Please don’t feel cheated, but this book is not about teaching you C programming. You’ll learn to write programs in C, but the most important lesson you’ll get from this book is rigorous defensive programming. Today, too many programmers simply assume that what they write works, but one day it will fail catastrophically. This is especially true if you’re the kind of person who has learned mostly modern languages that solve many problems for you. By reading this book and following my exercises, you’ll learn how to create software that defends itself from malicious activity and defects.

I’m using C for a very specific reason: C is broken. It is full of design choices that made sense in the 1970s but make zero sense ...