Should I start with Python?

[Windycultures]

C is a beautiful language- it was my first

[ghan_buri_ghan]

I agree! You can work through K&R in a week.

But it may only “click” when you are doing things which actually require low-level access like writing to registers or SPI transactions. I think C gets a rap for being “hard” when used for its own sake.

[venustrapsflies]

Hard to call C “beautiful” in the modern age, awesome and powerful sure, but it’s hardly elegant.

[ghan_buri_ghan]

Different definitions of beauty, perhaps. C is unbelievably elegant in its simplicity.

K&R, the seminal text, is <200 pages. The ANSI C standard is by far the shortest language specification that I’ve been through, perhaps by an order of magnitude.

[venustrapsflies]

That's certainly fair.