Fun fact.. I put off learning C for years because of people claiming it's hard and too easy to have memory leaks and blah blah blah. In 1997 there was this cool game called Ultima Online that I enjoyed as well as an emulator project, which was written in C. So I learned enough C with that project and the C/C++ Programmer's Bible to make some small contributions. Find a project or an idea you are passionate about and you're practically guaranteed to learn.
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