This is exactly what I am doing now. I'm a system administrator with a firm grounding in scripting languages like perl and ruby with some experience in java. Af

This is exactly what I am doing now. I'm a system administrator with a firm grounding in scripting languages like perl and ruby with some experience in java. After dabbling with C I felt like it would be the best option for understanding memory management and gaining a solid foundation in programming. I started with the recommendation here http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/62502/small-c-projects/62508#62508 http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/62502/small-c... of writing your favourite data structures.