Programming

There is no single best way for every beginner. When I web search for "how to learn c programming", then a lot of tutorials will appear. It would be good to know what does make them "bad resource" in your opinion, so one can give a better suggestion. Also it would be good to know what your end goal with C is; systems programming? cli programming? why is Python not enough? do you want work as a C programmer somewhere?

Read a book about C, follow the examples and try to solve stuff alongside, play with the code. Take your time. And look out that its not too old, as the language and tools changed over time. Here is a suggestion: A complete and up to date open source book as downloadable PDF

• https://github.com/wardvanwanrooij/thecbook/releases

https://jsommers.github.io/cbook/cbook.pdf

Might be a good way for someone who is familiar with a higher level language.

Than there is of course "The C Programming Language" by Ritchie and Kernighan and "advanced programming in the unix enviroment" by stevens and rago.

So, i'd guess just get your feet wet with small stuff. Find out how to take arguments from the command line, or read a file, maybe programm a simple guess the number game. After you are more familiar with the syntax and so on you could look into using your c code in a higher level language. For python you'd have to look into ctypes for that.

One of the thing I recommends is to start small. Going from Python to C is quite a leap, because C language requires some fundamental computer science understanding when you write codes that offers no railing or safety net when you make mistakes. I would actually suggests that you start with C#, it is very forgiving when you make a mistake and have various tools to help you identify the bug in your program.

Big part of C# is that there is available video tutorial on an introduction to C# provided by Microsoft and it have subtitles. The biggest reason why I would recommend C# to beginner is simply that they offers a lot of resources to help beginners understand the fundamental of programming in general. They have tons of books, video tutorials, vibrant community, and so forth. Also C# can run on wide range of platforms, Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, Raspberry Pi, and so forth. Once you master C#, you'll find that a lot of the knowledge you gained from it is transferable to C, C++, Rust, DLang, and so forth.

Going right from python to C is rough. But you can try. I would suggest watching YouTube tutorials or reading a Book about C

I've started learning C four years ago, after a career spent coding ruby/javascript/Go, so I guess I was in the same position than you. I started by reading the GNU C manual, then the Glibc documentation, and the man pages for headers and functions I was using (all glibc functions have a man page ; depending on your distros, it may already be installed or you may need to install a specific package to install them all at once). And of course, reading header files in /usr/include/ is always useful for using this or that library. Later, I discovered the book Modern C and it completed my education to feel at home with C. I can't say if it's the best path, but it worked for me.

Harvard’s CS50 course is free online and does a pretty good job touching on the fundamentals of C in the first half.

there's a lot of different C's out there - I mean coding for microcontrollers looks really different to coding graphics with opengl, for example, especially for a beginner.
What do you want to do achieve with C specifically?

Why do you want to learn C?

This here might be an A B problem, so I'd like to check what is your goal, before recommending how to get into C. For most use cases there are much better options around nowadays.

Many of the use cases you needed C for in past decades now have better alternatives.

the "best" way to learn a language is going to change from person to person, BUT i would take a look at Modern C by Jens Gustedt if you haven't already: https://gustedt.gitlabpages.inria.fr/modern-c/

Maybe cross posting this to https://programming.dev/c/c_lang and https://programming.dev/c/learnprogramming might get some quality responses.

One thing that I did that was super helpful was to try to replicate something from Python.

(Yes, I know you can just look at the Python source, but just trying to ignore that and thinking about ways one might go about it. Not for production, just for practice)

For example, I wanted to try making something akin to Python's lists in C, with all of it's various operations, e.g. append, insert, length, split, reverse, copy, etc. I started with a single data type, and then wanted to expand it to accept whatever data type I threw at it. A project like this covered a lot of C concepts and really helped me get a grasp on things like data structures, memory management, search algorithms, etc.

Coming up with ideas for programs to code is the part I struggle with the most, so I like to use codewars.com when I'm trying out a new language. Really, the only way to learn is to practice, practice, practice.

Personally I wouldn't jump straight from python to C, python tends to hold your hand quite a bit and C will absolutely let you shoot yourself in the foot.

Personally I consider languages like c# and java a middle point but I don't do C so I'm probably not the best person to gauge that, just have seen a lot of people try and fail to jump straight into C from high level languages