I found it much easier to understand than Pascal. It just clicked. Later there was a moment of confusion with "char* a, b".

It helped than I've learned by K&R C book. Windows API and code examples are horrific, like another language.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/learnwin32/wi...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/learnwin32/ma...