Hello everyone! For many years, I have been coding every once in a while and actually learned a lot. I especially liked C and C-Like languages and building useless stuff just for fun and for the sake of the intellectual challenge that came with it, but since when AI became decent enough, it just kinda ruined the passion for programming and computers as a whole. Thing is, I am in university now and need to go back to using C and program regularly, but now that AI does everything 20000 times better than I ever will I always either cede to temptation to use it (thus nullifying learning) or just get bored so quickly I just turn off the computer to do something different.
is there a way to revive the interest for programming and building projects? I am doing my best to stop using AI but heck I really am self-indulging. please help!
I will check it out. I have got a manual of C that really sucks and puts nothing useful on the table. Do you think I should get the official manual?
I’m not a C guy, but afaik the closest thing to a useful manual in print is the K&R book (written by Kernighan & Ritchie, authors of the language).
I have a copy on my shelf and it’s… alright. It’s much more focused on basic language constructs than pragmatic usage and opinionated style. Good for what it is, but you should pick up something more recent and opinionated to go alongside it IMO, based on whatever C dialect you want to focus on (C89/C23).