Oh man, totally looking forward to this. It seems like so many programmers are kind of afraid of C because it's reputation and avoid learning it because they're

Oh man, totally looking forward to this. It seems like so many programmers are kind of afraid of C because it's reputation and avoid learning it because they're language of choice is 'more productive.' Which is really unfortunate, I've found having a good amount of C is hugely beneficial to understanding what's going on under the hood when you're using a higher level language, even if you rarely actually program in C itself. Plus even if you do primarily program in higher level languages, it's a great tool to have in your belt when you need to fix a bug in a library whose bindings you're using in higher level language, or when you legitimately do need to eak a little more performance from a particular piece of code. Also, love that the book starts by teaching you how to use make as well, so many C books gloss over the tools.