It depends on your level of C expertise. It's not very advanced, sophisticated C, so if you're mostly got pointers loaded into your head, you'll be fine. If a f

It depends on your level of C expertise. It's not very advanced, sophisticated C, so if you're mostly got pointers loaded into your head, you'll be fine. If a few `` and `&` will leave you scratching your head, it's not a bad idea to practice a little before you tackle the book. The introduction chapter suggests this exercise: > To get some practice with pointers, define a doubly-linked list of heap-allocated strings. Write functions to insert, find, and delete items from it. Test them.* If you can handle that, you should be fine for the rest of the book.