How I program C

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as the one long programming video worth watching, a provocative and influential take on C.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Eskil Steenberg

Topic

c programming style

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

8

HN mentions in dataset

19

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Hi Eskil from Australia :-) I remember you posted that on the page from 40 days ago also hehe. I have too many ideas myself already, so that one wasn't so useful to me, but was interesting. However, I really liked Drama in games [0] …

• [LINK] If you have lots of time: [LINK] If you can't be bothered reading a whole book: [LINK] Exercises: [LINK] and [LINK] Once you have syntax and basic algorithms down well, watch this, the only 2 hour YouTube video I'll ever recommend: [VIDEO] Both r/cprogramming …

• > Once you have syntax and basic algorithms down well, watch this, the only 2 hour YouTube video I'll ever recommend: > [VIDEO] Hard +1 on this! I think Eskil Steenberg work in C is really top notch - the video is heavily recommended, as …