> Why does everyone always suggest K&R? Because it's the best no bullshit book to learn C, period. Especially coming from garbage collected languages. It's not

> Why does everyone always suggest K&R? Because it's the best no bullshit book to learn C, period. Especially coming from garbage collected languages. It's not going to teach you valgrind or GDB, or even compile and link C programs but it will certainly teach you how to write C programs. > only trivial toy examples with no real world application Re-implementing POSIX commands is writing real world applications. > and touches almost nothing on actual project architecture or best practices. On what platform? Linux? Windows? Mac? tool chains are so different on all these platforms that it wouldn't make sense to spend time on that. That books is about C, not learning autotools and other horrors.