Beej's Guide to C Programming
beej.usHow many times has this been posted to HN? And to slashdot before that?
14th post, most recently popular 8 months ago (113 points, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43471393
Probably just capitalizing on: guide to learning comp sci (2 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117280
Full list:
Beej's Guide to C Programming [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43471393 - March 2025 (18 comments)
Beej's Guide to C Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35338074 - March 2023 (36 comments)
Beej's Guide to C Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34946811 - Feb 2023 (64 comments)
Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26911399 - April 2021 (171 comments)
Beej's Guide to C Programming (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15198093 - Sept 2017 (79 comments)
I previously avoided fully diving into Beej's content because I found its C guide listed under "Stuff that should be avoided" in the iso-9899 page.
https://www.iso-9899.info/wiki/Main_Page#Stuff_that_should_b...
I still wonder if that list does more harm than good.
They do recommend his guide to networking though…
“C is a low level language” … sigh.