“What resources would I need” -> you’re literally commenting on a teachers content. Karpathy (the author) has a very informative YouTube channel where he goes step by step through everything. He has a ton of repos and tutorials. Dig a little.
If all else fails… Google it.
They're a math / toy code thing. Large C projects have long descriptive names just like other languages.
How am I supposed to know that?
> Karpathy (the author) has a very informative YouTube channel where he goes step by step through everything.
Or that, without knowing that he's a teacher?
> Terse variables are a C thing.
I didn't realize variables had to be so short in C. Glad I write C++ professionally where they've added support for longer variable names.
> If all else fails… Google it.
There's a lot of LLM garbage out there. I got an answer here in a few minutes pointing to Karpathy's course which seems very high quality.
Be kinder.
You’re not supposed to know that. You asked a question, and this is you being told the answer.
It’s very convenient that the author of the post is quite literally the world’s most prolific teacher on this topic. Makes it easy to find Karpathy. You shouldn’t be expected to otherwise know that (or else why ask if you knew).
> I didn't realize variables had to be so short in C. Glad I write C++ professionally where they've added support for longer variable names.
This feels like a joke but old C compilers did have variable length limits. This is part of why C historically had shorter variables than other more modern languages.
Sorry if it came off rude, the internet is hard to communicate over.
https://publications.gbdirect.co.uk/c_book/chapter2/keywords...
https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
Do those, then come back to this and it will make more sense.