I've mentioned this in a previous thread awhile back. My father's approach to the question of "can I get some video games?" was to throw K&R at me and let me flounder.
Machines that I had at the time were a Trash80 something or other mostly running basic and an AT&T machine running some for of Unix...oh yeah.
But, I fought my way through K&R, multiple c compilers, assembler, etc. to actually learn something on these machines.
An interesting comment from an earlier discussion mentioned "this code (in C) is much cleaner than any C++ I have seen!". The truth is, if you know C, have a good style and discipline, you pretty much can produce more readable/reusable code than your normal c++ person.
Machines that I had at the time were a Trash80 something or other mostly running basic and an AT&T machine running some for of Unix...oh yeah.
But, I fought my way through K&R, multiple c compilers, assembler, etc. to actually learn something on these machines.
An interesting comment from an earlier discussion mentioned "this code (in C) is much cleaner than any C++ I have seen!". The truth is, if you know C, have a good style and discipline, you pretty much can produce more readable/reusable code than your normal c++ person.