I got quite a bit out "HeadFirst C#) while I was teaching myself C#. Head First C#, 3rd Edition - O'Reilly Media[^] I was already a proficient C/C++ programmer so I don't claim I was a total newb. My first C book was "The C Programming language" by Kernighan and Ritchie (original edition, yes I am pre-dirt). I am a huge fan of the Steve Oualline's work also. His Practical C Programming and Practical C++ Programming were very helpful to me in my progression. Horribly obsolete from a toolchain standpoint, but his explanations of the languages themselves (at least as they were in the 90's) are extremely clear and logical.

I believe Sortacore was referring to "kill all the power plants", not the green stuff. A Carrington level event would most likely do it. Last one of these was in the middle of the 19th century so another one of these is not out of the range of likely possibilities. There was a similar magnitude event in 2012, luckily for us it missed hitting the Earth. What If the Biggest Solar Storm on Record Happened Today?[^] - Edit - Added the all important "not"

I believe Sortacore was referring to kill all the power plant, not the green stuff. A Carrington level event would most likely do it. Last one of these was in the middle of the 19th century so another one of these is out of the range of likely possibilities. There was a similar magnitude event in 2012, luckily for us it missed hitting the Earth. Solar storm of 1859 - Wikipedia[^]