project-based-tutorials-in-c VS mal

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

>Would be interesting to see how the interpreter works actually...

It's quite easy to see, there are interpeters for Lisp in like 20 lines or so.

Here's a good one:

https://norvig.com/lispy.html

(It has the full code in a link towards the bottom)

There's also this:

https://github.com/kanaka/mal

Here is one implementation of a lisp (mal specifically) in matlab: https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/dcf8f4d7b9cf7b858850a04a0...

Only 260 lines of code, pretty concise :)

have a look at the crafting interpreters book, plus make a lisp (lisp is a great first language to make a compiler/interpreter for, just google "lisp compiler/interpreter" and you'll find lots of resources)

If you're really okay with the limitations of a tree-walk interpreter, you might want to check out MAL, which will teach you how to write a tree-walk interpreter for a LISP. The code for MAL has been translated to most popular languages, so you can work through the creation of an interpreter in the language of your choice. JLox would give you a bit more detail and a more complex language, but I'm not convinced that it's all that important.

Write a small programming language (lisp (https://github.com/kanaka/mal) or brainfuck) in C++ to learn the syntax more. This will teach you a lot about programming languages in general.

So I started some hobbyist game dev using Unity and realised that the full process of making a game has dependencies on a mass of lower-level skills including lighting virtual environments. As a hobbyist photographer I could see some useful analogies from lighting studios and other scenes

So I pivoted, and eventually made money, not from selling a game, but from developing tutorials about digital lighting. I was also able to contribute to a project at work that was making a product based on commercial games engine, not by actually coding it, but by helping to better estimate the costs of the asset generation required.

Coding Unity object scripts in C# also got me back into programming, and I went on to successfully build a self-hosting lisp interpreter following the Make a Lisp guidelines [0].

[0] https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md

Hijacking the top comment to add https://buildyourownlisp.com and https://github.com/kanaka/mal