It's a crying shame what Amazon did.

Definitely true.

Luckily there are thousands of stories that have passed judgement of time and are well worth it.

void wrongLoop(void) { char str_theFaggot[10] = { 'R','y','a','n','6','5','4','3','8','\0' };

// loop forever: while(1){ printf("\r\n%s did it wrong.", str_theFaggot); } }

Well, speaking from personal experience, I would say yes. I can say that the reasons as for why could be:

1. Reading slows you down giving your brain more time to "catch up".
2. Many books will give you hint/tips very often, some will go as far as explaining how it works under the hood.
3. Publishing a books is harder than making a video, as literally anyone can publish a video, but not everyone can publish a book, thus books on average will have a lot more effort put into them.
4. Books also tend to have a glossary explaining each concept in detail, think of it as a wikipedia of sorts. Books are an all in one type of deal.
5. You are forced to write down the code rather than simply copy/pasting it, allowing you to make mistakes and learn from them.
6. Programming is all about reading and understand the code, books help you train exactly that.
7. And finally but not less important, you don't need internet access.

I can say that in the few days that I have been reading the book that I have started to subconciously "compile" the code in my brain. By that I mean that if I see this: printf("This is just %c placeholder \nnumber: %d", 'a', 4); I automatically understand it as: This is just a placeholder number: 4

I also installed an IDE (integrated development enviroment) on my phone so I can practice on the go, it is called C4droid and I highly recommend it. It is a paid app but worth every cent. If you want to go with desktop, get Code::Blocks, it is multiplatform and it isn't Microsoft's Visual Studio.

I say start off with an Arduino in plain C. (an ATMegaXXX with a bootloader, no programmer needed, just a USB to RS232 converter). Once you get the hang of that, move on into doing it on a Raspberry Pi where you meet your new friend (or enemy) malloc();

Plenty of free online resources. Never once had to buy a book. I did buy a couple books a long, long, time ago, just never read them.

The author (and CEO of EO) definitely knows his shit. All too often though he gets into the weeds either bitching about how the corrupt press was fucking him over or decides to give a run down on what happened after they left then jump backwards in time and continue on. Really breaks up the flow of the book. I have the ebook if you want a copy or you can download it here in pdf: https://u1lib.org/book/11433211/ab4164

You kinda have to fuck with the formatting a bit to get it to work right on an ereader.

The Secret Teachings of All Ages.

It is supposed to be a massive book, but a lot of the reprints exclude the original diagrams, and good old copies are way over $200.00