Can I learn rudimentary programming from a book?

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WereKitten said:

^^^With which, you mean that you learned the _syntax_ of C and how to include/compile/link your programs. And various functions from some basic standard libraries, I guess.

Actually learning C as in being proficient and producing good, safe code will take... uhm, let's just say much longer.

I completed dozens of exercises in those 3 days, and when I mean 3 days, I mean them entirely (it probably took me around 35-40 hours of study). Ofcourse I was still a bit shaky on using functions that allocated/freed,etc.. memory, but everything else I was rock solid.