How to push further as a programmer?

Question

For the last, hmm, 6 months I\'ve been reading into Programming in C, I got myself K&Rv2, BEEJ\'s socket guide, Expert C programming, Linux Systems Programming, the ISO/IEC

Answer 1

You need to challenge yourself with a bigger, more complex project. Working through code snippets, as most book examples tend to, will not get you far past the chapter exercises.

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