I found that learning the basics of assembly was helpful. You can really see what's going on with the stack, what a pointer really is (pointers are really the o

I found that learning the basics of assembly was helpful. You can really see what's going on with the stack, what a pointer really is (pointers are really the only tough part about learning C, everything else will be the same old same old if you already know how to program) This is key advice. Understand hardware first and pointers are obvious, don't and they are (apparently) confounding.