As an undergraduate, Rob Pike first read Brian Kernighan's book on the C programming language while home sick from classes at the University of Toronto. "I lay in bed and I read it cover to cover," ...

Back in the day, we didn't have online tutorials, webcasts and StackOverflow to teach us new programming skills. We had to read books -- on paper! -- and it was good. I still keep copies of some ...

If you thought that C is the kind of language that only 60-year-old white men know, think again. Yeah, it’s the dinosaur among today’s programming languages. But it’s still alive and kicking in more ...

Thinking about diving into the world of programming languages? It can seem a bit much at first, right? Well, there’s a book ...

The C language has been a programming staple for decades. Here’s how it stacks up against C++, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, and the newest kid on the block—Carbon. The C programming language has been ...