Get started programming with C. Explore the fundamentals of this powerful language, including code structure, data, program flow, and functions.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Plunging into C
- Getting everything ready
- Coding your first program
- Challenge: Write your own code
- Solution: Write your own code
- Getting into the C language
- Reviewing code structure
- Working the C development cycle
- Challenge: Find and fix the bugs
- Solution: Find and fix the bugs
- Exploring the preprocessor
- Understanding header files and libraries
- Adding comments
- Challenge: Build the foundation
- Solution: Build the foundation
- Understanding C language data types
- Declaring variables
- Working with variables
- Exploring the printf() function
- Using constants
- Challenge: Make variables and constants
- Solution: Make variables and constants
- Understanding variable scope
- Making new data types
- Specifying characters and strings
- Specifying integers and real numbers
- Typecasting a variable
- Challenge: Basic I/O
- Solution: Basic I/O
- Working with math operators
- Challenge: Do some math
- Solution: Do some math
- Using assignment operators
- Obeying the order of precedence
- Challenge: Get the order correct
- Solution: Get the order correct
- Working with relational operators
- Using logical operators
- Understanding bitwise operators
- Shifting bits
- Exploring unary operators
- Challenge: Binary math
- Solution: Binary math
- Making a decision
- Exploring the possibilities
- Using the ternary operator
- Working with the switch-case structure
- Challenge: Select an item
- Solution: Select an item
- Creating a for loop
- Setting up a while loop
- Challenge: Repeat some text
- Solution: Repeat some text
- Nesting loops
- Breaking out of a loop
- Avoiding the goto keyword
- Challenge: Work the grid
- Solution: Work the grid
- Understanding functions
- Creating a function
- Challenge: Writing a function
- Solution: Writing a function
- Returning a value from a function
- Challenge: Returning a value
- Solution: Returning a value
- Passing arguments to a function
- Challenge: Passing values
- Solution: Passing values
- Using the main() function's arguments
- Retaining values in a function
- Creating recursive functions
- Challenge: Complete the code
- Solution: Complete the code
- Next steps
Taught by
Dan Gookin
