
Begin your journey into the C programming language from scratch, designed for everyone with no prior experience. Get instruction and Q&A forum access to clear syntax questions and build confidence.
Discover the beginner-friendly fundamentals of C programming, from data types and variables to binary memory and arithmetic operators. Explore conditional statements, functions, pointers, strings, and structs.
Set up the C development environment with Code Blocks, downloading from codeblocks.org and installing on Windows, Linux, or macOS. Create a C project, build, and run to see Hello world.
Learn the basic structure of a C program, including the header file and main function, with variable declarations and a print statement, returning an integer to signal success.
Write a hello world program in C by including stdio.h, using main and printf to print hello world to the screen, and returning 0 to signal successful execution.
Learn how the #include line brings in standard input/output by copying header code into your file, enabling the print function; without the include, you cannot use this print function.
See how a C program runs: the preprocessor removes comments and expands macros, and includes files; the compiler and assembler produce machine code, and the linker builds the executable.
Explore data types and variables in C programming, covering character, integer, float, double, and void, with memory storage, naming conventions, and the assignment operator.
Learn the naming convention of a variable in C, including allowed characters, no embedded blanks, first character rules, and case sensitivity, with examples of valid and invalid declarations.
Learn how to print the value of a variable in C using printf with format specifiers for char, int, float, and double.
Explore C datatypes with examples, covering character and integer ranges, float and double storage, memory, overflow, and format specifiers like %f and %lf.
Explore how precisions control decimal places in C using the format to print three or one decimal places. Learn about single precision, double precision, and IEEE 754.
Define constants as fixed values that cannot change during execution, such as integers, floats, characters, and strings, and show how to declare them with the const keyword.
Demonstrate how characters are stored in memory as ASCII values, using 8-bit bytes. Show how C prints them with %c by converting binary to decimal.
Explains how 32-bit integers are stored in memory using binary, with the most significant bit indicating sign, and introduces two's complement for representing and printing negative values.
Explore how IEEE-754 floating point numbers are stored in memory using sign, exponent, and mantissa. Learn the differences between single precision (32-bit) and double precision (64-bit) formats.
Explains how a 32-bit floating point number is stored in memory using sign, exponent, and mantissa, with bias 127, and how 10.75 is normalized and printed.
Understand how a double uses 64-bit memory with a sign bit, 11-bit exponent, 52-bit mantissa, and a bias of 1023.
Learn how signed and unsigned integers differ, including their minimum and maximum values, and view their 32-bit binary representations using the sign bit and two complement.
Explore the three types of operators in C, including unary operators (plus, increment, decrement), binary operators (assignment and two-operand operators), and the ternary conditional operator with examples.
Explain assignment operator in c, showing how the equals sign assigns a value to a variable and requires type matching; demonstrate shorthand forms like +=, -=, *=, /=, and %=.
Learn how arithmetic operators work in C, covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and modulus with symbolic forms and example expressions like 4+2, 4*2, and 4%2.
Learn how the preprocessor uses the #include directive to copy code from a header file into your source. Include the header to access printf for standard input and output.
Discover how to get input from the user in C with scanf, print results with printf, and use the address operator & for single or multiple variables.
Explore how the newline metacharacter and the backslash work in C, using a hello world example to print across lines and format output.
Explore the three logical operators in C—or, and, and not—covering unary and binary behavior, boolean values as 1 for true and 0 for false, and short-circuit notes.
Explore short-circuiting in C by examining the and and or logical operators, showing how the first operand stops evaluation and avoids side effects, with code examples.
Operators in C include equal to, not equal to, less than, less than or equal, greater than, greater than or equal, as binary operators returning 1 or 0.
Learn how operator precedence and associativity determine the order of evaluation in expressions, with parentheses highest, then multiplication and division, and left-to-right associativity for equal-precedence operators.
Explore integer division and fractional division in C programming, showing when results are integers or floats depending on operand types, and how decimal parts are discarded.
Master if and else statements in C by understanding the syntax with parentheses, expressions, and body, then execute the appropriate block on true or false, and explore switch with default.
Master nested if...else statements in C, learning how to place an if inside another and evaluate expressions to control nested blocks.
The lecture shows a C program to check if a number is even or odd with if else statement. It reads input with scanf, prints with printf, and returns 0.
Master the switch statement in C, using case labels, break, and default to test a variable's value with equality checks among integral types and multiple cases.
Implement a C program using a switch statement to check if a number is even or odd by computing num % 2 and printing 'even' or 'odd'.
Learn to find the maximum of two integers in C by comparing two inputs with an if statement and printing the larger value.
Learn to find the maximum of three integers using conditional comparisons and printf in C, with step-by-step logic to declare variables and print the result.
Learn to find the second largest of three integers in C by identifying the maximum and outputting the remaining value with conditional logic.
Learn the ternary operator, a conditional operator that takes three arguments: condition, true result, and false result; see how to compute the maximum of two integers using nested expressions.
Learn to find the maximum of three integers using a nested ternary operator in C, with a practical code example and output demonstration.
Discover how to determine the second largest of three integers in C by using nested ternary operators, including max checks and selecting the middle value with example code.
Explore loops in C programming, learning how to repeat a block of code efficiently with for, while, and do-while loops, illustrated by printing good night multiple times.
Master the for loop by understanding initialization, condition, and increment, with examples that print 'good morning' and numbers from one to 100 to reveal iteration behavior.
Learn the while loop in C, including initialization, condition, and increment, with exact and unknown iterations and examples like printing good morning and input validation until negative.
Master the do...while loop in C by exploring its syntax, including initialization, the do block, and the condition that governs repeated execution, illustrated with a 'good morning' example.
Learn how break and continue statements control loop flow in C programming, terminating the loop or skipping the current iteration to advance to the next one.
Explore infinite loops in the C programming language through examples of for, while, and do-while loops, showing how they print Hello World forever.
Explore nested loops in the c programming course by using for and while loops inside other loops to print a triangle.
Learn to write a simple C program that repeatedly prompts for a positive integer until one is entered, then prints the valid number.
Learn to compute the sum of integers from one to n in C using for, while, and do-while loops. Read input, accumulate with sum += i, and print the result.
Learn to compute the sum of even numbers from 1 to n in C by iterating through 1..n, checking evenness, and accumulating a running total with practical examples.
Learn to compute the sum of odd numbers up to n in C programming by iterating from 1 to n, checking for odd values, and printing the result.
Learn to compute the factorial of an input integer in C using a for loop. Multiply from 1 to n, then print the result.
Compute the greatest common divisor of two integers. Iterate up to the smaller input and print the gcd when a divisor is found.
Learn to read an integer and test if it is prime, printing prime or not prime using a loop up to half the number and a flag to track divisibility.
Learn to reverse a positive integer in C by extracting the last digit, appending it to a reversed accumulator, and printing the result after dividing by ten until zero.
Learn how to determine if a number is a palindrome in C by reversing the integer and comparing it with the original.
Solve the triangle printing problem in C using nested loops; read the number of lines and print i asterisks on the i-th line, forming a triangle.
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