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Austin C++ has too much abstraction to give you a good handle on the fundamentals. C gets you close enough to the bare silicon, and when the pointer bugs, memory leaks, and weird interactions between the "Safer C" library, the new "standard" string functions with "interesting" behavior, the new and equally exciting safeclib, and every library that expects the old clib behavior send you to the funny farm, to the happy home with trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they´re coming to take me away haha!, you're ready to appreciate Rust. Or BASIC.

Alessandro About that Grokking Algorithms book, big O doesn't tell you everything even when n gets fairly large. Take a look at the recent work on multiplication of large integers, for example. Sure, that spiffy new O(n log n) algo looks better than the old O(n¹.⁵⁸⁵) until you get to the "we are hopeful that with further refinements, the algorithm might become practical for numbers with merely billions or trillions of digits." 🤯

yetanothertroll is a good place to start, it help me refresh for a few interviews. Now, if you have a better book suggestions it would be constructive to post a link to them here so it not only helps him, myself, but also anyone else that comes along to read this.

Alessandro I'm more of a KISS Academy and School of Hard Knocks sort of guy. Free threading? Oh hell no. Give me a good DO CONCURRENT and I'm a happy camper lol "Pure" OO/OOP? Yeah, I think you know where I'm going with that. Functional programming is interesting, and it seems 1983 8-bit Atari Logo has a way of focusing the mind. There's little room for all the usual kitchen sink full of syntactic sugar in a 16KB ROM cartridge! Dijkstra probably would not have liked it, but needs must. Oh yes, the EWDs are a must read cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD