You got about a dozen :) Don't be swayed by the naysayers who tell you not to learn C no matter what. You already know it's a dangerous language. Approach it

You got about a dozen :) Don't be swayed by the naysayers who tell you not to learn C no matter what. You already know it's a dangerous language. Approach it from the perspective that this is your opportunity to learn what kind of headaches you want to avoid. Understand that the defensiveness and paranoia that come with writing C are not fundamental to systems programming, but that the problems that engender them are at the root of a lot of the complexity you'll see in other languages.