[a3n]

When I learned C it was in the air. Everyone around me was using C at my jobs.

I learned C by programming in C, talking to my neighbors, and obsessively reading comp.lang.c. That used to mean usenet, but these days most people will get to it via Google: groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c

The best thing you can do is work on some really hard shit for a long time with a smart set of colleagues.

My first book was K&R <glances up at bookshelf> but my favorite was Harbison and Steele <glances up at bookshelf>. These days probably one of the O'Reillys is good enough.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/C-faq/

http://c-faq.com/

These days I don't think I could program my way out of a paperbag with C. But I did like it a lot back then.