When I started studying CS my first language was Java. The syntax felt overly complex and the documentation was so huge it was impossible to find anything usefu

When I started studying CS my first language was Java. The syntax felt overly complex and the documentation was so huge it was impossible to find anything useful from it as I had no idea what I'm doing. I almost dropped out because of how overwhelming it all felt. Then I took an optional C course and it saved me. I actually felt like I understand how things work and the standard library is small enough that it's actually useful for a beginner. My simple hello world program even compiled into an .exe file. I felt like I'm actually programming instead of just copying other people's code that I don't understand myself. From that point of view, C is simple.