Yeah it IS... I have Prata's books on C & C++ and "A Book on C" and I get so confused I sometimes just want to quit reading anything. Beyond the real basics, precedence and basic rules of syntax and "grammar" they are more confusing than they were really worth. For all the good I got from "A Book..."
I could have checked it out of the library and been done with it in a week... Instead of paying $18.++ for a really used book.
cout << "I Quit" << end1; ... printf(%s.... REALLY useful stuff. Struct's Unions and Enumerators... Pointers...
I finally realized they were a LOT more complicated than values and addresses...
Still makes me "Slightly Crazy" and I force myself to read 2 hours a day... Too.
I now know slightly more C & C++ than could be legibly engraved on the head of a Pin... And as was pointed out I learned 95% of it in the forum and a couple of Arduino specific books.
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