Really Confused

if you don't mind me asking, why C? why not c++?

http://publications.gbdirect.co.uk/c_book/thecbook.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Programming-3rd-Stephen-G-Kochan/dp/0672326663
https://www.amazon.com/Programming-...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=XTNJD8ZPPK59JBEQ98GF <<<<<<<I hear this one is really good

I did C++ at school. I know it's not the same thing, but "An Introduction to Programming with C++ (Eighth Edition)" by Diane Zak worked really well. It explains how things work and actually gave you practice problems, rather than telling you how things work and throwing you to the next lesson. I checked some of Diane's other books, and she hasn't written one for C. She did write one for Visual Basic though, if you're interested. I haven't found a good way to learn C.

@HamBone41801
C is a universal language and I so far, enjoy learning it. It's easier to understand than Java for sure...

@Felek666 fair enough. object oriented languages can be a pain in the ass, but they have their uses. the best part about c++: (I'm lazy so heres an image.

c++ isn't pure object based. its a fusion between object and procedural.

oh dear
here you go.

why the fuck does it keep changing

um can you delete one of those?

Ask the guy which made that image, lol

Nope. Only mods can.

any way, heres this on c++ if your interested.

this guy is great.

You could learn Python, it is a good starter language, for example, I started with Python and Pascal(at school)

holy shit. they still teach pascal?

But I don't wannna.
Python will be useless for what I will be doing after I learn C.

Still, it is a very nice language to start, it will teach you the fundamentals of OPP

Nowadays I do amples and amples of studying up on C myself. Granted, yeah, it isn't as easy and straightforward sometimes as it's all set out to be, but once you take your time scouting round for the right info, it pays off.
Source: I've noticed massive improvements in my C coding skills in the past few months after doing this.

Though I have to say this PDF has saved my ass on quite a number of occasions, for example, bitwise operations (I was studying chip8 interpreters at the time) and general C practices such as switch/case/break statements (also came in handy for my chip8 emulator):
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cprogramming/cprogramming_tutorial.pdf

And the Tutorialspoint site altogether guided me in lots of right directions at the same time.
There are some other sites I've used, but I can't remember them off the top of my head right now.

Personally I haven't found books help me at all. I bought a Python programming book from my local book store (it was a fairly thick book, about 450 pages thick or something) but having a read through it turned out to be tedious and more in-depth to grasp than browsing python tutorial websites. It goes into a lot of nice detail about how to implement a new thing related to Python as you go through each section, but I'm not a fan of big walls of text, and it eventually bores me.
That said, I'm not a huge book-reader altogether anymore, so...

But it really does come with the experience, and as a lot of folk usually say, you should start small with learning the friendly stuff if/else statements, for/while loops, reading/writing to text files, creating simple text-based menus, etc. and only then extend your knowledge with possibly libraries such as OpenGL and the lot. Just something to warm you up so you're not intimidated by it all.

I'd also say browse through a lot of source code. I do this almost too much (but I still write original code from the ground up), but it helps to understand how you should structure your code and how to use most of the functions, data types, statements, etc.

sadly I learned vb first :/

@jt_1258
well, vb isn't that bad but it's not useful either.

I made a college gpa calculater at least :/