My 2 Year Journey of Learning C, in 9 minutes 

Segfault is like learning any other thing. People exaggerate it too much. "Centering a div", "deleting the default cube", "dark souls is hard". There are many examples

I`m not a big C programmer but i`m very grateful i started programming with it. It is actually fun and a beautiful language.

Love this journey storytelling, hope you gaining more and more experience ahead and enjoy!

Amazing and very inspirational for my coding journey. Thank you for making the video, just subscribed the channel, looking forward to learning more,

It is great because it forces you to be systematic and careful, and will just let you make linked lists without complaining. The more new languages restrict you and make more things automatic, the more you're less encouraged to think carefully, and the more processing power is stolen.

The "Crafting Interpreters" book failed to mention the coolest way of implementing bytecode interpreters in C - using the computed goto extension to do an indirect threaded code execution (supported by gcc and clang, which is pretty much all everyone should care about these days). It's significantly faster than the mere case approach described in the book.

Thank you for sharing your experience. As a software engineer by profession, I have forgotten the beauty of programming solely for the purposes of enjoyment and learning. I miss those days.

Your approch and projects are wonderful! I really enjoyed the video

respect for your decision to stick to C for a while. it's not always the most fun when you're learning, but what you learn from C lasts the rest of your programming life

just started getting familiar with C. Thanks for keeping me motivated :)

Wow ! Be courage and show experience to the world ! Lot of people need your story ! Have fun friend ! ❤

C is a really good way to learn programming. It's really easy to understand how many other languages work under the hood.

Much enjoyed and shared this with my students. I actually started out many years ago with C++ but I'm enjoying C more and more, especially teaching it. Cheers

I actually had to take a “C vacation” after programming in Java/kotlin for 3 months. Seriously the OOP paradigm weighs on the soul.

your journey is awesome ❤

I too am starting out with C (as a computer engineer coming from Java and Python) and your video helps a lot. I can also recommend the "C Programming for Everybody (CC4E)" course, especially if you are already a programmer. It basically goes through the first edition of the K&R book and introduces C as a convenience layer for assembler. To see it this way helped me a bunch. Anywho, thanks for the video :)

It took you two years just to learn C in the span of 9 minutes?

I can so agree with this video! When I initially started learning C for a class, I was also surprised with the general productivity increase, contrary to the actual amount of 'work' seeming to go up. I'm seeing why a lot of people much prefer the agility of a functional programming approach to the general 'much-ado-about-nothing' class hierarchies and file structures of object-oriented programming.

beautiful, not boring video. Thanks for sharing.

Great stuff...I recently started learning C++ after about two years of python. I'm really enjoying myself with C++.

Cool video! I remember that when I used C I've never had any seg faults so I thought those memes come from more experience guys but it turns C isn't as bad as people say😅

Wow, thanks for the shoutout! I look forward to seeing what you do with your codebase, and what videos you're making next!

Your videos are calm and nice💐

I have too been using C for the past 2 years, funny :). I tried many other languages javascript, java, python3, rust, etc (actually used python and javascript extensively) but for all of my personal projects I kept coming back to C. It is so comfortable in the low overhead. I can *really* program, I am not bogged down by verbosity, having to look up syntax or libraries, its all there. All you need to write C is a c compiler, vi and the man pages. C is also very flexible, and is the first language I turn to when trying to understand DSA or programming paradigms. Just today I have been learning about more functional languages (following using prolog in uni ) and finally understand monads ! woop, I implemented them in C to re-enforce them.

C takes a good bit of commitment, but the event (regardless of time spent) will reward the journeyman with deeper insight not only to systems but self. I became more familiar with assembler prior to C and C was still a bit of a learning curve due to pointer management but the fundamentals carry over that neither language is difficult for any other reason than you are the creator and security officer. Both disciplines offer a great deal of control and with that power comes great responsibility while the more you know and understand your data the more easy the definition of your code will emerge allowing you to develop in the languages at an almost second nature level of "Dev Ops". Familiarity & passion = performance but more importantly lets one know where they should be rather than used as scales determining whether they "suck" compared to other devs. Self imposed critique is not an ally - find that language that intrigues you and try to work with data that also intrigues and you will eventually find your rhythm & rhyme with stanza being more relevant to that performance level that previously staggered your mind. Totally agree with everything you pointed out in the video - absolutely nailed the essence of transgress into C and the importance of such an event. This observation is a mantle (believe it or not) and says a great deal about your intellect. Old school developers would be very pleased to see your progression. Good stuff. Awesome video. Checks the affirmation box. Wish you many happy journeys.

I learned C relatively recently and I can not imagine coding without pointers and references

This video gave me back the confidence to learn C again which I had lost 🙂

Wow, what a gem of a channel I've been recommended

A started witch C after visual basic and I love it. It's been a while that I haven't written something in C though 😢

Cool stuff! I learned the pain of the all ceremony, state encapsulation, and other “clean code” after I switched to using Clojure. While it’s surely not the tool for the jobs that have to “go fast” it is certainly a joy to work on the problem at hand and not the problem of what we usually think of as code structure.

You're awesome dude 😎

this video is really valuable

The end is epic, a piece of advice to us: C you next time!

I love you! because I love low-level schtuff and so do you!

Very nice, I'll give your code a lookthrough. Thanks for the GS plug.

love the conclusion!

I really hope that you keep adding videos! Hi subscribe with that tiny bit of hope that you continue making videos!

I'm studying C, I'm loving it so much

I agree about bringing that C procedural mindset to OOP languages. It is very easy to over-architect things in Java, C#, and even C++.

I also came from Java and after I finished my postgrad, I decided that I never wanted to look at the language again. I picked up C and it is without a doubt my favourite language.

coming from web dev and learning C for work that I do now thanks for sharing,

You are amazing! Yes it’s time to try some functional languages and then you can view C and it’s struct/union from a new perspective.

Thank you for the video.

thank you for this! Valuable and inspiring ^_^

Damn! It will took me 5 years just to be able to write all your project.❤❤❤

My journey was interrupted a year ago. I started it seeking precisely the benefits you got from it. Time to make time for C.

nice video man!

Currently started to work with C++, coming from python, and JS. Was a fun watch, good luck in everyone else’s journey!

I fell in love with C as well. ❤

That video comes in the right moment of my life, studded C in university two years ago, this year I'm back to this language for get more knowledge about programming, I finish the basis, but I don't know how I can advance...

thanks for sharing

I just saw PrimeTime's video where he reacts on this exact video And I got this on my yt feed now

C is really great language, For a low to middle level language with much control over hardware it has one of the best elegant syntax C really taught me core principles of computation after learning basics of CS and programming with python as a absolute beginner

a string is an array of characters, this got me excited

I do get a lot of seg faults, but it's true that they usually aren't bad to debug. Mostly I'm misspelling a filename or forgetting to initialize a variable

Good Content, I subscribed you.

"I ve got some experience with c++ but i still got confused on why pointers are usefull" damn that speaks to my soul

very peaceful video

Cool vid, just starting to learn C after learning Python for 1 year, to better understand how it's implemented under the hood. Like you said at the beginning of the vid, a lot of things have been taken for granted, it's hard to adapt to so much typing and boilerplate. Also, 4:00 we have the same last name :D

Very nice 👍🏻

Yes! The first time I tried C and I was following making a sort algorithm I was like - huh? What? It doesn’t have????? And it took sometime for it to sink in why. And realising C was almost as close to the metal as a programming language gets. And the power!

Interesting, thanx.

Thank you.

I have really enjoyed watching your video. It takes time learning anything worth while and you have proved it. However, when you start working in a company on an existing large and complex codebase that has little or no documentation, if that is the path you take, you will find out soon enough why C is difficult. When it is your own codebase and you know where everyhting is then all the C issues will not be there that much, but as soon as you work on a complex C project that is not your codebase all the misconception will turn out to be true. That is why C++ has smart pointers. There are alternatives that are trying to replace C such as Rust and Zig and they will probably become the new low level languages.

While watching videos like this, I feel like I was the only one in the whole undergrad world who got into CS without a massive headstart

great vid

If you've never done low level programming, learning about pointers and how and when to use them can be daunting, but it sounds like you're going to stick with it. I would suggest that you learn to use the compiler to generate assembly and learn assembly while you're at it as it would make you a better C programmer. Also, read both the Intel and AMD optimization manuals as they will help you write better code in any language. Also also, get a copy of the C standard document and read it, maybe not all the way through in one sitting, but any parts that stick out in your mind. C11 added generics with the _Generic keyword, learn how to use it.

from where you learn such topics in C? Can you guide me? Your projects are mindblowing!

Nice job bro! Keep it up. 🫡

If I could go back in time the first thing I would learn is how memory stores things at address:value and all you're doing with code is move those values around in memory by iterating through addresses

ive been learning it for about a month and I love it Ive written a command line text based game which has some ascii animation using a C compiler app on iphone Ive also worked on coding moving ascii analog clocks and things quite fun so far my goal is to program drivers and maybe make small games

Thx for sharing free resources and channels rather than promoting paid content

Learning C in 9 minutes... good phrase, good to learn the very basic, not only.

In my journey I started with C then did a bit of C++ but we had an haskell discovery class and it changed my life. I highly recommend you give it a try. It's going to be hard at first ngl but the concept your going to learn are incredible

the joys of being a student. i wish i was this free.

I'm learning C too, to get easy the steps use org-mode with snipets of code and evaluate it on the same document, save a lot of time. Maybe you could try and comment about it your thoughts

wawaweewa, It's a very NICE!!!!!!

Побольше таких видео, хотя от куда взять столько времени

Incredibly inspiring. Saved for as reference for my own journey.

There is still multi threading, and fork(). Im currently doing a project in University, where we get a baseline OS and have to implement multi threading and fork() by scratch

The fact I'm making a project called Graphit that does the exact same thing that yours did is a huuuge coincidence

bro voice so soothing

That C23 makes the new 'compound literal' an unnamed lvalue on the right hand of an assignment, is diverted from C++ lifetime. However this means with C23 you can construct by pointer semantics with one-liner from now on, eg. one-liner mktime( & (struct tm){ } ). I don't think this C23 feature can be adopted by C++ because the move semantics needs the existing of rvalue lifetime.

Next up, a journey across the sea!

8:13 "You should DEEPLY understand what you're using" I feel so called out lol

Thanks for this informative video about C , it encouraged me to start this journy too! I'd like to ask you , what are the resources did you use to learn Java? Thanks in advance!

I too started learning C since 2021 and now I'm into embedded systems lol.

next step, create a database and output html using only c. the graphics and low level asm coding can only go so far, unless you're interested in robotics, but creating c/c++ cms and improving web speed is on the horizon that you can put it to good use.

4:20 damn dude how u made this project in c 😮

Would you mind making a video on the build systems you prefer when working with a decent sized C project. I in the same boat as you. Thanks for the video :)

I can see you love programming languages. I think you will also like learning Odin and Zig. At least those will make your C programming skills improve even more I hope

Could you please recommend projects that I can work on using C? I've recently completed my learning of the language, including pointers and other concepts. These projects would help me reinforce my understanding.

WAIT You learned for 8 months and went to transpiling already? Impressive stuff

I like the advice you gave at the end. May I know how many years of experience you had in programming before you started learning C?

in the end there the "how can i write the best possible thing" vs "how do i make this thing first then make it better" relly depends on the project, with c its relly easy to do the second since you dont have as much potential spagetthi to deal with, but this mindset in something like java or c# could relly make it far harder to maintein in the long run, which are what OOP languages do best, they are by far the best paradigm when it comes to scalability.

Fun fact: I have run into significantly more segfaults writing PHP than C. Granted, I write PHP for a living, but it is actually hilarious how often I have crashed PHP-FPM.

"It all started when I was looking into how a compiler is made..."

Nice....

Having studied both C (self-taught) and chemistry (at Uni) I totally approve of what I see here :)

I have started with c programming as my first language and it has been 4 months Can u suggest where to start finding projects so I could get more confidence and continue building my own.😊.And the video is very decent and good,it helped me.