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.

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

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/

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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.

Do it like me. First start with C64 Basic, then go to m68k assembly, then some Pascal, then C becomes very obvious.

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

This thread already has some good recommendations, I would also suggest you check out Raylib engine (https://www.raylib.com/) of you're interested in learning through game development.

It's free, open source, written in pure C, and designed with educational purposes in mind.