Top 10 Mistakes New C Developers Make: A Quick and Practical Guide (Download)

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Jan. 14, 2026

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C gives you the kind of power that can build spacecraft or brick your laptop before lunch. This list isn’t a lecture; it’s a field guide to mistakes new developers make over and over. These are the bugs that can produce headaches — sometimes on-demand, sometimes nearly impossible to reproduce.

Such issues are particularly deleterious to teams in a sprint phase of development. The good thing is that many of them are so common whereby we can name them, shrink them, and give you habits that make your code boring in the best way: predictable across compilers, optimization levels, and platforms.

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