An Introduction To Programming Through C-- By Abhiram -

A week later, the midterm exam arrived. The problem: implement a binary search tree with a custom allocator. Students around him panicked. Leo smiled. He imagined Abhiram whispering from the page: "The tree is just a story. Each node is a small house. The allocator is just the land surveyor. Now go build your neighborhood."

He got an A.

He never found out who Abhiram was. But sometimes, late at night, when his own students would stare at a segfault with hopeless eyes, he would lean over and whisper the same words that had saved him: An Introduction To Programming Through C-- By Abhiram