i was told that c was a tough language and i was apprehensive to start with it in the beginning, i started learning it anyway and wondered what the fuss was all about? it seemed to be easy and i was able to follow without any problem. Mastering it with all undefined behavior,compiler quirks is a different story altogether. I would say give it a try and if you don't like switch to python. I also feel it is easier to go from c to python than vice versa as it takes some time to get around manual memory management in c which is taken care of by the interpreter in python.