Learn C from Scratch

• Why program in C?
  • Getting Started with C in C
  • Virtues and Challenges in C
• Basic Types, Operators and Expressions in C
  • First Steps in C
  • Variables in C
  • Data Types and Sizes in C
  • Declarations in C
  • Constants in C
  • Statements and Scope in C
  • Building Expressions Using Operators in C
  • Type Conversions in C
  • Defining Your Own Type Names in C
  • Other Convenient Operators in C
  • Exercises on Operators and Expression in C
• Control Flow in C
  • The for Loop in C
  • Other Types of Loops in C in C
  • Conditionals in C
  • The break and continue Statements in C
  • A switch Statement in C
  • Exercises on Control Flow in C
• Functions in C
  • Rationale in C
  • Defining a Function in C
  • Input Arguments in C
  • Returning Values in C
  • Argument Checking in C
  • Variable Scope in C
  • Automatic vs Static Variables in C
  • Variadic Functions in C
  • Exercises on Functions in C
• Complex Data Types in C
  • Arrays in C
  • Writing to Arrays in C
  • Multidimensional Arrays in C
  • Variable-Length Arrays in C
  • Structures in C
  • Exercises on Complex Data Types in C
• Memory : Stack vs Heap in C
  • The Stack in C
  • The Heap in C
  • Code Examples in C
  • Stack vs Heap in C
• Pointers in C
  • Pointers in C
  • Pointers and Arrays in C
  • Passing Pointers to Struct in C
  • Passing Pointers to Functions in C
  • Dynamically Allocated Memory in C
  • Exercise on Pointers in C
• Strings in C
  • Strings in C
  • String Handling Using the C Standard Library in C
  • Arrays of Strings in C
  • Exercise on Strings in C
• Input and Output in C
  • I/O Streams in C
  • Input and Output with Files in C
  • Binary Files (raw bytes) in C
  • Random Access in C
  • Exercise on Input and Output in C
• Macros and the C Preprocessor in C
  • The C Preprocessor and #define Directives in C
  • Macros with Arguments in C
  • Conditional Compilation in C
• Header files, Compiling and linking in C
  • Splitting a Program into Multiple Files in C
  • The GNU make Utility and Makefiles in C
• Debugging in C
  • The GNU Project Debugger (GDB) in C
  • Breakpoint in C
  • Gotchas in C
  • Tricky Code in C
• Speeding up your code in C
  • Profiling of Code Using gprof in C
  • Known Slugs in C
  • Using the Compiler Optimizer Flags in C
• Advanced Topic : Parallel Programming in C
  • Why Parallel Programming? in C
  • Kinds of Parallel Programming in C
  • POSIX Threads in C
  • OpenMP in C
  • Message Passing Interface (MPI) in C