[sdiy] how to learn C?

[Mark Rivera]

> As I read the book, I typed in and compiled a lot of the book's
> complete code, especially the little ones.  Then I messed with the code,
> compiled and tested it.

This is great advice. Books tend to follow good conventions of style and form.

I'll add that one should NOT look at other people's code in the wild
... the author(s) could have bad habits, or the code might be old and
not organized well.

The code in books has the advantage of not being
edited/patched/mangled over time.