C is a good language to learn.
It was designed to do a very different job from most modern languages and the key to understanding it is not to just understand the code, but how this relates to the hardware.
Fundamental C takes an approach that is close to the hardware, introducing addresses, pointers, and how things are represented using binary.
An important idea is that everything is a bit pattern and what it means can change.
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I/o Press Fundamental c: getting closer to the machine, paperback/harry fairhead
