That's how I learned C. I bought a copy of K&R, but didn't have access to a Unix system with a C compiler for about a month (when my new job started). I read th

That's how I learned C. I bought a copy of K&R, but didn't have access to a Unix system with a C compiler for about a month (when my new job started). I read the book and wrote out all the exercises in a notebook. When it came time to try my code, I spent a while correcting some basic misconceptions that I had developed but that hadn't been corrected by an actual compiler.