> while being a student in an easter-european university, where the tone and style of professors was very "dictatorial"

I know it's just I typo, but now I have an image stuck in my head of a large rabbit, dressed up like Mussolini, lecturing about computer science.

Beej's guide was so amazingly helpful and welcoming when I found it over a decade ago.

Poorly written guides that try to be friendly or conversational are often worse than dry and terse guides of similar caliber, which really makes me appreciate the good and truly great ones.

And Beej's Guide is a truly great one.