Most Windows users just used Codeblocks C/C++ -or anything similar- and setup everything for them.

I always find, whenever I loan Peter Van der Lindens’ “Deep C Secrets: Expert C Programming” book to a fellow colleague, I never get it back. For a while I had 10 or so spare copies to hand out as treats, but now I just refer everyone to this PDF:

https://progforperf.github.io/Expert_C_Programming.pdf

If you’re a C programmer, old or new, and haven’t encountered this book: Stop What You Are Doing And Go Read It! It’s amazing.

And the K&R reference is useful too. It's a small book about a small language that does not have many features and maps to very basic concepts on hardware that really only does very basic things.

It's so cool! Do you have a similiar resource about c++?

And it's well worth reading this earlier discussion, too.

I wonder why that previous submission was "flagged"?

I can (it's really obvious here) and wish I couldn't. Every time I run into something I might wanna read, but it turns out to be LLM "assisted" writing after I've already invested some time, it feels like I was tricked into eating cardboard.

And when I bring up that this should be clearly marked, preferably up front, it's often taken as a personal slight.

I realize this is a me problem to some extend, I shouldn't feel strongly about this, but I do.

There are some very small tells, like the constant "rule of threes" that AI loves to follow, but you're right that this is much harder to tell than it used to be.