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e12e · 2021-02-28 · Original thread
From various discussions on Hn, I think the consensus is most people really like k&r as a technical book (it's concise, clear and a fun read) - but everyone working with C says its a terrible book for learning modern C.

I tried to refresh my memory from previous threads, and I think the general trend has been to recommend (as seen in sibling comments):

https://modernc.gforge.inria.fr/

https://nostarch.com/Effective_C

I've also seen the older:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/21st-century-c/97814493...

Mentioned.

There's also Architecture of Open Source Applications, which can help with starting to read some larger code bases, some of which are in C: http://aosabook.org/en/index.html

And there's a general recommendation to go read the source code of the Redis cache/db.

Finally i came across a mention of this short article on gdb (nb: mention of TUI text ui should probably have been in the top, not a foot note):

https://www.recurse.com/blog/5-learning-c-with-gdb

I feel I'm missing a book that has come up often, but can't think of which one.

I did like zed Shaws learn c the hard way, but I'm afraid it's getting a bit long in the tooth: https://learncodethehardway.org/c/