The C Programming Language, by Brian W Kernighan and Dennis M Ritchie. I had tried to learn BASIC and Pascal. And it never really clicked. But K&R’s book expla

The C Programming Language, by Brian W Kernighan and Dennis M Ritchie. I had tried to learn BASIC and Pascal. And it never really clicked. But K&R’s book explained the language, how it worked, and how to program — in the most primitively satisfying way.