When I worked with ChaiScript, I suspended learning C because I do not want to cause any learning conflict when using 2 programming languages at the same time. After I suspended development on Re-Hoard and Reckless Abandon, I went on learning Ruby because of something else. However, I decided to stop learning Ruby and finish going through the 1st edition of The C Programming Language. After all:
- I should finish what I have started, especially at learning such an important language.
- I effectively had about only 20 pages of book remaining.
- I have been going job-hunting, but I did not put C in my résumé because I did not go through the whole book. Telling my potential employers “C is not in my résumé that I attached, but I am actually learning the language!” was ugly.
- One of my alternative projects needs C anyways.
Given all this, I spent yesterday and today finishing my studies. Surprisingly, after I go through the definitions and lvalue stuff in the Appendix, most of the content is stuff I already know.
Finishing this book is a worthy accomplishment to me. Putting 1st edition of The C Programming Language on the “storage” bookshelf… storing the Gabite fake Pokémon card that was my bookmark… I feel that I gave them some sort of “honorable discharge”.
C…
…that essential programming language…
…that knowledge is mine, now.
Idyll Romp 