C Programming Language Refresher Course

Basic and advanced concepts of C programming on Windows, Linux, or Mac OS. Project-based with pointers and linked lists.

What you'll learn
Start developing a full-fledged C program for his or her specific needs within a matter of a day or two, as the course is kept short yet practical, on the lines of a corporate training program.
Feel confident about programming in C and become capable of understanding advanced concepts in C and programming in general.
Requirements
Familiarity with some programming language is preferrable, but not mandatory
A copy of the book "The C Programming Language", Second Edition, by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie is mandatory
A spirit of adventure is absolutely necessary.
Description
This is a course that respects the smartness in you. If you don't like the course, there is always the 30-day money-back guarantee.Noteworthy comments by learners:I really liked the fact that this course is not as slow as most programming courses which get boring after a little while…All in all it was a fun and awesome course, I will for sure be following other courses from the same teacher –Alessandro BassiA good Place to learn C basics…course gives huge opportunity to know ones weakness in C programming. A consecutive lecture and quiz series gives one consolidated approach – Akash Saxena                                   This course introduces several components of basic C programming that you will apply in your real-world projects. It focuses purely on traditional C language without any OS specific dependencies. So, this course can be followed by any Windows, Mac OS, or Linux user.                                     This course is designed to teach C programming through small classroom projects, in an informal way. Both the basic and advanced topics including the difficult ones like string handling, files, structures, pointers, linked lists, and command-line arguments are covered.  There are also over a 100 questions grouped into 37 quizzes to reinforce the concepts. Course Highlights Focus towards the way a C program is written in a real-world project.Slightly fast paced and rigorous, yet easily doable.Cover as many concepts as possible in a single yet simple program.Almost each lecture is clubbed with questions to reinforce basic concepts.Constant additions and updates to content Course Objectives Make the student capable of writing a new C program from scratch on his own.Make the student comfortable in dealing with difficult concepts like pointers and linked lists.Familiarize the student with as many basic features of C as possible.Make the student get comfortable referring to the C Programming Language book by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. The book is popularly known as the Bible of C.Make the student feel happy, self-confident, and accomplished.                                  This is an evolving course. Future additions to the course could be based on the what the students want to learn next, apart from more additions to the fundamental concepts.                                    Learning C is a life-changing experience. After you learn C thoroughly, you can never ever become a bad or mediocre programmer in your career.     

Overview

Section 1: Introduction: What is our goal in this project?

Lecture 1 About C Language

Lecture 2 Concepts covered in the first project

Lecture 3 Description of the first project

Lecture 4 How to answer quizzes

Lecture 5 How to learn thoroughly: Repeat the code yourself

Section 2: Task-1 of the project: Generation of 10 random numbers and storing them in files

Lecture 6 Let's code: Generate one random number

Lecture 7 Intro to Variable Declarations

Lecture 8 Intro to Pointers

Lecture 9 Function Declarations

Lecture 10 Scoping

Lecture 11 More on scoping

Lecture 12 Arithmetic operators

Lecture 13 Ouput statement: printf

Lecture 14 Commenting the code

Lecture 15 Let's Code: Generate 10 random numbers

Lecture 16 Let's Code: Character array and string copy

Lecture 17 Let's Code: More on strings

Lecture 18 Let's Code: File creation

Lecture 19 Let's Code: Writing into a file

Section 3: Task-2 of the project: Creation of linked list

Lecture 20 Structures and Lists

Lecture 21 Comparison of Lists and arrays

Lecture 22 Memory allocation: malloc

Lecture 23 Let's Code: Defining a structure and reading from a file

Lecture 24 Let's Code: Creation of the first list element

Lecture 25 Let's Code: Creation of the 2nd list element

Lecture 26 Let's Code: Creation of the n-th list element

Lecture 27 Why we do not use debugger now

Section 4: Task-3 of the project: Text file reading, String processing, memory allocation

Lecture 28 Description of the problem

Lecture 29 Array of strings & reading a line from a text file

Lecture 30 Let's Code: add a string array and read from a file

Lecture 31 isspace and isalpha

Lecture 32 Let's Code: get first word from line

Lecture 33 Let's Code: Fill in the string field in the structure element

Lecture 34 Let's Code: Task-3 completion, compile and run

Section 5: Task-4 of the project: Sorting linked list in ascending order based on numbers

Lecture 35 Description of the task: Sorting the list in ascending order

Lecture 36 Let's Code: Sorting in ascending order

Lecture 37 Let's Code: Inserting a node in the list

Lecture 38 Let's Code: Task-4 completion, compile and run

Section 6: Task-5 of the project: Sorting linked list in descending order based on strings

Lecture 39 Description of the task: Sorting the list in descending order

Lecture 40 Let's code: Sorting in descending order

Lecture 41 Let's code: Completion of task-5, compile and run

Section 7: Command-line arguments

Lecture 42 Let's code: A quick demo of using command-line argument

Lecture 43 What are command-line arguments?

Lecture 44 Let's code: Using command-line arguments in code

Section 8: Compiling the code using gcc compiler

Lecture 45 Demo of using gcc to compile the code on cygwin

Section 9: Where do you want to go from here?

Lecture 46 Future additions and possibilites

Lecture 47 Conclusion

Anybody who is interested in programming should take this course.,If you already know C language, this is a great refresher course that you'll thoroughly enjoy, Any fresher who is aspiring to attend a job interview for a job involving programming in C, This course could also be used as part of corporate training program. The course in its current form would span just a day or two for a dedicated student to pick up the fundamentals of C.,This course could also be used as a starting point for those aspiring to become device driver writters, embedded systems programmers, arduino enthusiasts, coders on linux, Objective-C starters, and the like, which are highly C intensive.