learning C

Should I start with The C Programming Language? I already know some basics (hello, world, obviously), but will the book be good as a first handbook?

What type of software do you wish to develop? How much effort are you willing to put in learning to do anything other than printing strings or iterating over simple arrays?

In most cases you're better of with another language.

Some will argue though that C is a good starter language, because you're forced to learn the computer internals (data types, memory allocation, pointers, etc)