C-Programming for Beginners – Solid Foundations

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Lecturer Introduction

Lecture 2: Course Philosophy

Lecture 3: Udemy Ratings

Lecture 4: Learning Outcomes

Lecture 5: Programming Languages

Lecture 6: The C programming Language

Chapter 2: Your First Program

Lecture 1: Installing Code::blocks – The Integrated Development Environment

Lecture 2: Hello World & printf()

Lecture 3: Keywords

Chapter 3: Variables & Data Types

Lecture 1: Printing Variables & Different Printing Formats

Lecture 2: Binary, Decimal & Hexadecimal numbers

Lecture 3: Hexadecimal numbers & Comments

Lecture 4: Computer memory explained

Lecture 5: Variable sizes & sizeof

Lecture 6: Variables in memory, Bits & Bytes

Lecture 7: User input & scanf()

Lecture 8: Variable limits and overflow

Chapter 4: IDE & Compilers

Lecture 1: Pre-processor

Lecture 2: IDE and Debugging

Lecture 3: Compiler & Linker

Chapter 5: Operators

Lecture 1: Arithmetic Operators

Lecture 2: Bitwise Operators

Chapter 6: Conditional Execution & Loops

Lecture 1: The if statement

Lecture 2: Relational Operators (use with if statements)

Lecture 3: The if-else statement

Lecture 4: The if-else-if statement

Lecture 5: Mini fun exercise – if statement

Lecture 6: Logical Operators (use with if statements)

Lecture 7: The "for" loop

Lecture 8: Mini fun exercise – "for" loop

Lecture 9: The "while" loop

Lecture 10: The "switch & case" statement

Lecture 11: Mini Fun Exercise – "switch" statement

Chapter 7: Writing Quality Code

Lecture 1: Indentation

Lecture 2: Variable Names

Chapter 8: Compound & Custom Data Types

Lecture 1: Structures Eplained

Lecture 2: Structure Code Example

Lecture 3: Typedef

Chapter 9: Arrays

Lecture 1: Introduction to Arrays

Lecture 2: Strings as Arrays of characters

Lecture 3: Mini Fun Exercise – Arrays

Lecture 4: 2D Arrays

Lecture 5: Array of Structures

Chapter 10: Functions

Lecture 1: Introduction to functions

Lecture 2: Function Composition

Lecture 3: Functions & Arguments

Lecture 4: Functions with Return statements

Lecture 5: Functions with multiple arguments

Lecture 6: Scope, Local & Global

Chapter 11: Pointers

Lecture 1: Introduction to Pointers

Lecture 2: De-referencing a pointer

Lecture 3: Pointer de-referencing 2.0

Lecture 4: Mini Fun Exercise – Pointers

Lecture 5: Functions & Pointers – Pass by Reference

Lecture 6: Pointers & Arrays

Lecture 7: Bonus: Pointers & Arrays debugging

Lecture 8: Pointers & Structures

Lecture 9: Passing Arrays into Functions with Pointers

Lecture 10: Pointers & Arrays of Structures

Chapter 12: Libraries, .c files & .h files

Lecture 1: Header files & Multi-file projects

Lecture 2: Libraries in C

Chapter 13: File I/O

Lecture 1: Write text to file

Lecture 2: Read from text file

Lecture 3: Mini Fun Exercise – Write & Read a text file

Lecture 4: Append to a text file

Lecture 5: Binary files

Lecture 6: Mini Fun Exercise: Appending to file

Lecture 7: Binary files: Array of characters

Lecture 8: Binary files: Array of integers

Lecture 9: Binary files: Write struct objects

Lecture 10: Binary file: Read struct objects

Chapter 14: Dynamic Memory Allocation

Lecture 1: Memory Allocation

Lecture 2: Lifetime of a Variable

Lecture 3: malloc() & free()