Comprehensive C Programming Course

Explore object oriented methodology, its relation to the software development life cycle, and crafting programs with classes and objects in C++.

Explore object oriented methodology by defining classes and objects with attributes and behaviors, and understand how objects maintain state and communicate via messages and methods.

Explore how the object oriented approach delivers realistic modeling, promotes reusability of classes and objects across several applications, and enables resilience to change and easy maintenance.

Explore the phases of the software development life cycle, focusing on the analysis and design phases, requirements gathering, and building a paper‑and‑pencil model of an object‑oriented system.

Trace the evolution from machine language to the B language and C, culminating in C++ at Bell Labs, then explore a basic C++ class example with a display method.

Set up gpp and environment variables, write a c++ program with a class and display method using cout to print hello world, then compile and run to create an exe.

Learn object-oriented programming in c++ by modeling a student class with accept data and display data methods, using io stream, cin, and cout to interact.

Master the six operator types in C++, including arithmetic, arithmetic assignment, unary, comparison, logical, and conditional operators, and explore their use with basic constructs and looping in C++.

Master conditional constructs in C and C++, using if else and switch case to control flow with true or false conditions, comparison operators, and simple syntax.

Learn to determine even or odd numbers in C++ using the modulus operator and if-else, then use an else-if ladder to output red, green, or blue for 10, 20, 30.

Learn to replace an if-else ladder with a switch case for a single variable, using case labels, breaks, and a default for invalid numbers, with gpp.

Explore switch-case usage in C, including braces, break, default, and type-dependent cases. Learn while loops in C++ with a counter that prints good morning five times and prevents infinite loops.

Learn how the while loop uses the continue keyword to restart at the top and skip remaining statements while summing numbers with sum and num.

Explain syntax and behavior of do while loops, compare them with while loops, and demonstrate printing 1 to 10 with do while and numbers between 1 and 100 with for.

Learn how abstraction hides nonessential details while encapsulation masks data, using public, private, and protected access specifiers in c++ to provide only relevant information to users.

Explore how the public access specifier controls visibility of class members with a student example, showing public versus private defaults, and introduce protected access for inheritance and member visibility.

Explore how static variables and static functions provide a single shared copy for all class objects, support external initialization, and allow values to change across instances.

Explore how static variables inside a method retain state across calls in a C program, contrasting with non-static locals that reset on each increment.

Explain how the friend keyword in C++ enables non-member functions and friend classes to access private members, and demonstrate when to use friend to support encapsulation.

Arrays in C++ store elements of a single type and use zero-based indexing. Declare and initialize arrays in multiple ways, and recognize the null terminator for character arrays.

Demonstrate creating an array of size five to store student marks, assigning values via an assign method, and printing the array with a print method in a main program.

Explore single and two dimensional arrays in c++, using for loops to print elements, and declare or initialize two dimensional arrays as a matrix with height-weight data as an example.

Learn how to initialize and assign values to two dimensional arrays in C, using character and integer examples across rows and columns, with curly brace initializers and matrix formats.

Learn to work with two-dimensional arrays in C++, using nested for loops for input and display, compute row sums, and explore multi-dimensional array concepts.

Learn how to pass an entire array as a parameter to a method and compute the sum of its elements by supplying the array and its length.

Explore enum in c++ as a user defined type of names for integral constants. See how enumerators start at zero by default with increments and casting between enum and int.

Explore C programming in a Linux environment and learn to write and compile C programs on Linux. Understand C's speed and hardware interaction for system programming.

Set up a C programming environment with a text editor and gcc, verify installation with gcc -v or gcc --version and which gcc, and save files with a .c extension.

Learn to install gcc on Linux, verify with gcc --version, and follow six steps: prerequisites, download source, configuration, building, and install, plus optional package-manager methods with yum or apt-get.

Explore how gcc acts as a cross-architecture compiler for C and C++, and learn the four stages across its workflow: pre-processing, compilation, assembly, and linking.

Identify the core parts of a first C program, including preprocessor commands, header files, main, return type, and printf, with comments and a hello world example.

Compile a simple hello world in Linux using gcc, creating object files and executables, and learn how to handle syntax errors and warnings to produce a runnable program.

The GCC -C option compiles and assembles a C source file without linking, producing object files (.o). You can compile multiple programs, generating one .o file per source.

Master gcc -c to compile and assemble .c sources into object files without linking. Use -o to name outputs, manage warnings, and prepare for linking or makefile-based multi-executable builds.

Learn how to use gcc options to compile, generate executables, and include debugging symbols with -c, -o, and -g, while managing default a.out and overwriting behavior.

Explore preprocessing by replacing directives and stripping comments and whitespace, then the compiler checks syntax and produces object code, and finally linking creates the executable.

Explore the three stages of compilation: preprocessing with directive substitutions and comment removal, compilation producing print.s and object code, and linking to an executable, using save-temps and -o/-g options.

Explore gcc program development through preprocessor, compiler, and linker stages, producing object files and an executable, with syntax perfection and error-free output, using makefiles.

Master the basic syntax of a C program, including tokens, semicolons, and comments, and explore integers, floats, enums, void, pointers, arrays, structures, unions, and functions with memory considerations.

Learn variable declaration and definition in C, print and scan values with printf and scanf, observe junk default values when uninitialized, and apply proper initialization and assignment.

Practice taking user input with scanf for int, char, and float, print values with printf, and observe how new line handling and gcc errors affect execution.

Explore constants in C using #define and const and preprocessor directives, then master arithmetic operators through hands-on examples like calculating a rectangle area with user input, printf, and scanf.

Explore practical arithmetic operators in C, covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, modulo, and pre/post increment and decrement, with emphasis on order of execution and real program output.

Explore relational operators in C for comparing two numbers: equal, not equal, greater than, less than, and greater than or equal to. Discover logical operators—and, or, xor, and negation—in examples.

Master logical, relational, bitwise, and assignment operators in C, and learn to write, compile, and debug basic programs with GCC on Linux.

Explore control statements in C, distinguishing iterative loop and non-iterative forms, including conditional and unconditional control statements, and how each executes based on conditions or without checks.

Explains the goto unconditional non-iterative control statement and its role in transferring control to a label in the program. Describes forward and backward jumps and why goto should be avoided.

Explore how conditional non-iterative statements in C—if, if else, switch, and else if—work, their syntax, and how nested conditions guide program decision making.

Explore the flow of execution in C using if and else constructs, including nested if, else if, and user input comparisons, compiled with GCC.

Explore how if, else, else-if, and nested if structures govern C program flow, using proper equal and greater-than checks, and learn to bracket code for clarity and correct nested loops.

Examine the goto statement, its forward and backward jumps, and label usage in C, with an exit example and notes on avoiding goto for clearer control flow.

Learn how break exits a loop when a condition remains true, and how continue skips to the next iteration, illustrated with while and for loops and example code.

Explore the switch statement in C, using case blocks and a default label, with break to prevent fall-through, and input values with scanf.

Explore break, continue, return, and switch statements in C, including how break exits loops, how continue restarts the loop, how return passes values between functions, and how switch selects cases.

Explore how to implement C switch statements with case and default, valid integer or character expressions, and how break and continue relate to switch execution to prevent fall-through.

Implement a C program that reads three marks, uses if-else to fail if any is below 36, totals the scores, and uses a switch to assign first, second, or third class.

Learn to implement switch and case constructs with break statements to classify students by total marks and percentage. Understand default case handling, if-else alternatives, and debugging with printf.

Explore how while, for, and do-while loops enable repeated execution in C by detailing initialization, test conditions, and body updates, with examples like file creation and entering student marks.

Practice writing a simple C program with printf, a while loop, and a count variable, compiled and run in a gcc environment to illustrate three loop iterations.

Explain the while loop in C using a simple interest program, showing how count initializes, tests condition, and executes the loop body up to three iterations with input and output.

Compare do while with while in C: do executes the loop body once before evaluating the condition. It then repeats while true, with a semicolon after the while.

Compare do while and while loops by showing that do while executes the body at least once before evaluating the condition, unlike while.

Explore the for loop in C, revealing its three expressions separated by semicolons: initialization, test, and update, plus two syntax forms and repeated execution based on the test condition.

Demonstrates how a for loop executes with initialization, condition, and update, compares with while loops, and shows a sample program for calculating the principal and rate of interest.

Explore for loop basics in C by writing and debugging programs that show initialization, condition, and increment, with examples using printf and scanf to compute totals.

Explore the for loop in C by tracing initialization, update, and condition checks while computing subject marks. Compare it with a while loop and discuss use cases.

Learn how nested loops in C programming work, with for, while, and do-while loops inside each other, and identify how infinite loops occur and are used in menu driven programs.

Master nested loops in C by comparing for and while structures, debugging sum initialization, and understanding infinite loops and their practical uses in testing and stress.

Explore functions in C as self-contained blocks that perform coherent tasks, distinguish from loops, and enable reuse via library and user-defined functions like sqrt, scanf, and printf.

Learn how to use predefined library functions by including header files like stdio.h and math.h, link the math library, and implement user defined functions with proper declaration and definition.

Learn how to create user defined functions in C, covering function definition, declaration, and call, plus function header, body, return type, and formal versus actual arguments.

Declare a function with a return type of int and two integer parameters before main, enabling it to be called by main to return the sum.

Define actual arguments and formal arguments, and learn how function calls pass values; examine four function types, including no-argument no-return with an area example.

Explore functions with arguments and no return values in C, demonstrating how a void area(float radius) accepts parameters and performs calculations without returning data, highlighting code reusability.

Explore functions with no arguments but with a return value in C, using a circle area example, including prototype declaration, return type matching the receiving variable, and common debugging notes.

Learn about functions with return values and arguments in C, where actual arguments must match parameters in number and type; extra arguments are ignored and missing arguments yield garbage values.

Explore a calculator-style C program that uses switch-case with break and default, computes percentage from total marks, and classifies students into first, second class or indeterminate, while debugging with printf.

Explore implementing a calculator in C using four function types, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, with detailed discussion of parameters, return values, prototypes, and debugging.

Understand how main starts C programs, how other functions are called from main, including recursive calls, why only one main exists, and how return values indicate success or failure.

Learn recursion in C through a factorial example, understand how a function calls itself, the stack and terminating conditions, and the trade-off between compact code and slower execution.

Explore a factorial example in C to see how recursive function calls affect execution order, why a proper terminating condition matters, and how recursion can be slower.

Explore the power of pointers in C, learning memory addresses, pointer arithmetic, dynamic memory allocation and freeing, and how arrays and data structures use pointers.

Explore the address of operator in C, learn how to obtain and print variable addresses, understand memory as continuous chunks, and differentiate scanf and printf usage for pointers and addresses.

Learn to declare pointer variables in C using type star name, assign addresses, and access values through dereferencing to manage memory and references.

Explore the indirection operator to access a variable through its pointer. Initialize pointers at declaration and use dereferencing to read values and handle null pointers in C.

Master pointer arithmetic by learning allowed operations, such as subtracting pointers, and avoiding addition, multiplication, or division of pointers, plus star and increment/decrement precedence and right-to-left associativity.

Explore double pointers and double dereferencing in C, mastering pointer-to-pointer concepts, address storage, and indirect access to values through examples and debugging notes.

Explore void pointers as generic pointers that can hold any data type, with casting and dereferencing rules, and understand safe usage in pointer arithmetic.

Explore the constant qualifier and volatile in C, including pointer to constant data, constant pointers, and constant pointer to constant data, plus volatile memory-mapped registers.

Learn to define functions with a variable number of arguments, enabling sums beyond two numbers and understanding why fixed-argument functions fail for three or more inputs.

Master variadic functions in C by including stdarg.h and using va_list, va_start, va_arg, and va_end to access arguments, while noting fixed argument counts are required because counting isn't built in.

Learn how variadic functions accept a variable number of arguments using a fixed set of named arguments, an ellipsis, and a standard mechanism, with examples like printf and scanf.

Learn how to access unnamed arguments in variadic C functions using an argument pointer, va_start, va_arg, and va_end, including how to define the last fixed argument and ensure type matching.

Learn how to pass command line arguments to a C program and how these inputs alter execution and output. The lecture covers parsing and transforming argument data to drive behavior.

Learn the basics of C programming and procedural oriented programming, from algorithms to compiler concepts, and build an embedded, cross-platform online exam portal.

Create a console-based C program that builds a simple menu for an online exam portal and quiz, with options to start the game, view high scores, get help, and quit.

Explore creating a help menu function in a C quiz game with four options, using clear screen, if-else routing, and modular functions for help, high score, start, and quit.

Create a menu-driven C program with functions to display and save a persistent high score using high score dot txt, reading, comparing, and updating between runs.

Explore a menu-driven start game feature for a C programming online quiz, handling view high score, help, and quit, with random questions, score tracking, and a name input.

Calculate the quiz score as correct divided by total questions times 100 and track time for feedback. Learn how random five-question selection and file storage preserve high scores across sessions.

Master payroll processing using C programming, from creating an employee master to monthly transactions and deductions. Generate payslips and reports, including income tax and provident fund calculations.

Explore building a payroll processing program in C, including a main function with authentication, a modular menu driven by switch cases, and structures plus file handling for employee records.

Develop monthly payroll processing by reading the master file, validating employees, and appending salary, tax, and deduction details to the monthly transaction file.

Process payroll by reading master and monthly files, compute gross earnings and gross deductions, derive net pay, and generate payslips stored in the process file.

Learn to build an employee management system in C using Visual Studio, with a main menu to add, modify, delete, print records, and a struct for name, age, designation, salary.

Install Visual Studio community edition, create an empty c project named employee management system, add main.c with stdio.h, print hello world, build, and run (ctrl+F5) with getch to pause.

Learn to create an s_employee struct in C with fields for name (40-char), age, designation (40-char), and salary (float), manage multiple employee records, and test in Visual Studio.

Define an employee structure in C, use strcpy_s for safe string copy, fill name, age, designation and salary, and build a menu-driven program for add, print, modify, or exit.

Create a text-based selection menu for an employee management system using a while loop; handle add, modify, delete, print, and exit options with user input.

Create a C main menu using printf to show add new employee, modify, delete, print employee details, and exit; read input with scanf_s and switch-case.

Build a menu-driven employee management system in C using an endless while loop, printf prompts, and a switch to add new employee, modify, delete, print all employee details, or exit.

Learn to extend a C program's selection menu with an add new employee flow that collects name, age, designation, and salary, and prepare for dot dat files to store records.

Explore building a selection menu to add and modify employee records in C using a struct, and input with scanf and printf, preparing data for file storage.

Create a C menu using printf and scanf to add, modify, and delete employee records inside a while loop, storing data in a dat file for file input and output.

Create and manage a binary dot dat file to store employee records, calculate each record size, and implement add employee with a flush function, plus reading, modifying, deleting, and printing.

Demonstrates adding a new employee to a dat file in C by seeking to end with fseek, writing the record via fwrite, and flushing stdin in a menu flow.

Modify the employee record by rewinding to the file start, reading records with fread, comparing names with strcmp, and overwriting the matched entry with new name, age, designation, and salary.

Position the cursor back in the employee file, overwrite the record with a buffer, and update name, age, designation, and salary, flushing the buffer to complete modifications.

Learn to modify an employee record in C, handling string and size issues, updating name, age, designation, and salary via seek, rewind, and the f read function.

Learn to delete an employee record from the employee dot dat file by copying all nonmatching records to a temp dot dat, then remove and rename to restore the data.

Prints all employee records from a binary file using a while loop and fread, displaying each employee's name, age, designation, and salary with printf.

Install Visual Studio Community Edition, run hello world in C, and build two-player tic tac toe in classic C with a numbered board, keyboard input, and win detection.

Create the tic tac toe board in C using a nine-cell character array and pipe-based visuals, with init and update loops for two-player gameplay.

Develop a tic tac toe board in C by building the layout, printing with printf and %c, and updating cells with player input (X or O).

Learn to accept player input for a grid game by initializing the board, switching the current player with modulo, and placing x or 0 using a do-while loop and scanf.

Handle player input to update the board, validate moves, and manage the turn loop, while preparing an outcome-detection function to determine the game's result.

Determine the game outcome by checking all rows, columns, and diagonals for a win (X or O) and returning an int; detect draws and print the outcome.

Learn to implement a two-player tic-tac-toe game in C, including board initialization, move validation, outcome determination, and win/draw logic without AI.

Learn to build a hangman game in classic C using Visual Studio, with word categories Asian countries, Indian cities, and animals, plus a random word selector and a game loop.

Select and install free C and C++ ides, including Visual Studio Community Edition, Dev-C++, Codeblocks, and Borland C++. Create a blank solution and run a hello world to verify.

Create a hangman project in Visual Studio, verify Visual C++ is installed, set up an empty project, add main.c with hello world, and learn solution versus project and Git integration.

Create a choice menu for a hangman game by implementing a choose category function, validating 1–3 input with scanf, and selecting from categories like asian countries, indian cities, and animals.

Create a c program menu that uses a do-while loop to validate input and handle invalid input, then switch on 1–3 to select asian countries, indian cities, or animals.

Refactor the selected category to an index, define 2d word arrays for three categories, fill them with words, and select a random word from the chosen category for guessing.

Implement a two-dimensional array to store selected category words (asian countries, indian cities, animals), copy words with memcpy or strcpy, and seed randomness with srand(time(NULL)).

We implement random word selection by choosing a random index between 0 and max words, copy the chosen word with memcopy, and finalize it with strcpy.

Hide the randomly selected word from the chosen category among three categories in a C program by replacing each character with a special symbol, then print the hidden word.

Write an evaluate_guess function that takes the player guess, the selected word array, and the hidden word array, loops for matches, and returns an outcome used by the main loop.

Implement the main game loop in C by running an endless while loop that processes player input, updates the hidden word with correct guesses, and enforces a max attempts limit.

Convert the player's input to uppercase with ctype.h's toupper, evaluate the guess, and advance the hangman main loop using strcmp and progress updates.