project-based-tutorials-in-c VS fdbox

My experience with "C Primer Plus" was a good one I found it very nicely explained, and it's wordy as it explains everything to the details, and with every example, there is a new programming idea. I don't know your studying technique but I suggest you implement every example by yourself. Nevertheless, you could give CS50 a try, it's without saying one of the best introductory courses, and also take a look at "Learn C the hard way" there are also videos accompanied by the book, which is pretty good in my opinion since you don't want something "wordy". And pick a project it will help you with your learning journey as learning without implementation is just half learning. - Project based learning - Project-based tutorials in C - Build your own X

Project based tutorials in C. This is awesome.

For those of you that so not know it already, there is a collection of C projects (ongoing and finished) by rby90 on GitHub

Usually you fit the library to the project, not the project to the library. Just pick something that interests you, maybe even re-do a C++ project in C instead. If you really need ideas, here is a list that can help you.

Projects

I recommend you have a look through this list for inspiration : https://github.com/rby90/project-based-tutorials-in-c

FDBox from GitHub Note that it's technically meant for FreeDOS but could work

Cool, waiting for your PR: https://github.com/elcuco/fdbox/

Regarding the code: its modern C code. It does not look outdated, my main target is Linux/OSX/Windows, but I keep it in such way that good old TurboC can compile it (on modern OSes I use cmake for the build system). I even made a script that creates a "D:" drive for me to develop, so I start dosbox and then I can run "tc" and compile the project (see the readme file on the github project, and also https://github.com/elcuco/fdbox/blob/main/etc/create_dosbox_dir.sh). As part of the CI/GithubActions I build on every commit the code and tests for Linux/Mac/Windows/DOS. Tests are run on all 3 modern platforms, and I will eventually run this on a dosemu session or something. I invested a lot in tooling.