i highly recommend "the c programming language", the k&r book. some may claim it's old but i don't know if there is a good "modern" c book. you can pick up the

i highly recommend "the c programming language", the k&r book. some may claim it's old but i don't know if there is a good "modern" c book. you can pick up the modern part quite easily. now that i am typing this, it would be amazing if BWK were to write a modern c book. sicp is good, if you wanna get all meta.