C Made Easy For Beginners: A Complete C Language Course

Become a professional C programmer, learn from very basic to advance level, apply / answer confidently.

What you'll learn

Fundamentals of C Language (From scratch to advance level)

Basics of C Language in depth, Data types, all Control structures, IO (+5 Example student projects demonstrated and fully explained)

File IO (text/binary), complex Data structures, Dynamic / Static Libraries creation, Unicode support in standard C

Web Programming using pure C language, connecting with MySQL / SQLite / CSV, Forms handling, CGI Programming (+2 projects)

Object Oriented Programming using pure C Language, solving complex problems using OOP (in depth)

GUI Programming (on windows) using pure C

Data Structures and Algorithms

Requirements

A machine with Windows / Linux / Mac on it

Basic understanding of English Language

Description

Is prior programming experience required?  Short answer is "NO", because this course is designed for absolute beginners; but, if you already have programming experience, you would be able to learn C within [probably] couple of days.What you learn and earn from this C Course?You would be able to code (pretty much any kind of software application), i.e. general, complex, a database driven, web, GUI application, as well as complex algorithmic stuff after finishing the course.You will have completed understanding on C language and it's capabilitiesYou will learn to code Web Applications in pure CYou will learn to code Windows GUI Application in pure CYou will also learn concepts and implementation of Object Oriented Programming in CYou will learn Data Structures and AlgorithmsYou will be learning from (five) Student Projects that are included in this course (specifically coded / tailored for this course)You will learn SOC - Separation of ConcernsYou will learn Modular programming approachYou will learn real-life application development, linking external stuff, and completing your application in shorter time.Outline overview:Basic Programming concepts, Variables, Constants, Type-castingData Types, all kind of Operators (arithmetic / relational / logical etc.) , Basic input / output / Unicode Character setArrays, VLAs, Matrices, Structures, Unions , bit-fieldsDecision Making (if-else, switch, ternary), Nested decisions / statementsLoops (for, while, do-while), Nested LoopsFile IO (reading writing appending  - Binary / Text data)Functions (Basic, with/without parameters, Variadic, Pass by ref/value, Recursion), Scope of variables / constants. Advance use of "const"Pre-processor / Macros - in depth studyPointers in details, Pointer Arithmetic, Function PointersStorage ClassesData Structure & Algorithms - Linked Lists (doubly / singly / circular), Stacks, Queues, Trees, Graphs & Hash-Tables, Sorting algorithms etc.)Creating & Working with Shared / Static Libraries .SO / .DLL / .A / .LIB (Implicit and explicit linking of shared libraries)Bitwise operations / Bit manipulation in detailYou will also learn about CGI & Web programming - HTTP (get / post) , SQL, HTML, etcGUI Programming to build fully functional Windows ApplicationsObject Oriented Programming using CAlong with Additional topics you an find in last Bonus chapter (which will gradually be updated with new topics5 - Student database projects are included in this course, and are demonstrated in form of video lectures

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 About the Teacher

Lecture 2 Introduction to Course

Lecture 3 Why C?

Lecture 4 What is a Compiler?

Lecture 5 A quick talk on C compilers

Lecture 6 Choosing an Editor or IDE

Lecture 7 Necessary tools installation - Microsoft Windows

Lecture 8 Necessary tools installation - Linux

Lecture 9 C is Statically-Typed language

Lecture 10 C is a Case-Sensitive language

Lecture 11 Type Fast please !

Section 2: Let's start to Program - C Basics [Variables, Data Types, Constants, Arrays]

Lecture 12 A basic C Program Structure, 1st Program & Output

Lecture 13 Basic IO in C (output)

Lecture 14 Basic IO in C (input)

Lecture 15 Comments // /* … * / , Single line / Multiline comments

Lecture 16 Variables - Basic concept and Rules

Lecture 17 Data Types in C

Lecture 18 Arithmetic Operations

Lecture 19 Additional Assignment Operators

Lecture 20 Arrays in C and concept of string

Lecture 21 Creating Arrays of Numbers and other data type

Lecture 22 Accessing Individual elements from Array

Lecture 23 VLA - Variable Length Arrays in C

Lecture 24 Multi-Dimensional Arrays [2D, 3D, etc]

Lecture 25 The "sizeof" - and it's importance

Lecture 26 Assigning Constant values to Arrays

Lecture 27 Concepts of "signed" and "unsigned" - Numbers ranges

Lecture 28 Constants in C

Lecture 29 Scope of Constants in C

Lecture 30 Boolean Data Type

Lecture 31 Sized Integer types - be a better programmer

Lecture 32 Enum Data Type (Enumerated)

Lecture 33 Different base constant values - Integer Literals

Lecture 34 Typecasting in C

Section 3: Decision Making

Lecture 35 "if - else" in C

Lecture 36 Relational Operators

Lecture 37 Logical operators in conditions & Compound conditions

Lecture 38 Nested if - else statements

Lecture 39 Ternary / Conditional expression

Lecture 40 "switch - case" - another way of decision making in C

Lecture 41 Extra Semicolons Problem

Section 4: Structures in C - struct

Lecture 42 Introduction, use and benefits of structures in C

Lecture 43 struct - The Implementation

Lecture 44 Bit fields within structures

Lecture 45 Nested structures in C

Section 5: Unions in C - union

Lecture 46 Introduction to Unions in C

Lecture 47 Use and benefits of Unions

Lecture 48 Unions - The Implementation

Section 6: Loops and Labels in C

Lecture 49 Introduction to Loops in C

Lecture 50 Visually understanding loops structure

Lecture 51 The "for" loop in C

Lecture 52 The "while" loop in C

Lecture 53 The "do-while" loop in C

Lecture 54 Infinite loops in C & concepts of break

Lecture 55 "continue" keyword, it's use in loops

Lecture 56 Labels in C - concept

Lecture 57 Labels - The Implementation

Lecture 58 Nested loops in C

Section 7: More String know-about & IO functions

Lecture 59 Common string and IO functions

Lecture 60 Formatted printing into a string

Lecture 61 About quotes, slashes and % sign

Lecture 62 Using Program Command-line arguments

Section 8: Functions in C Language

Lecture 63 Introduction to Functions

Lecture 64 Basic Function Structure

Lecture 65 Declaration & Definition

Lecture 66 Functions that do not return a value & conditional return

Lecture 67 Functions that return a value

Lecture 68 Functions that have Arguments / Parameters

Lecture 69 Functions that that "do not" have Arguments / Parameters

Lecture 70 Functions with Variable number of Arguments (Variadic 1)

Lecture 71 Implementation of Default Arguments in C using struct (C++ style - Variadic 2)

Lecture 72 No data types in arguments

Lecture 73 Understanding Pass by Value

Lecture 74 Understanding Pass by Reference

Lecture 75 Recursive Functions in C

Lecture 76 Scope of variables & static variable within a function

Lecture 77 Constants (const) revisited - with regards to Functions

Section 9: Preprocessor directives in detail - macros

Lecture 78 Introduction to Preprocessor Directives

Lecture 79 A Macros and their implementation

Lecture 80 Predefined Macros

Lecture 81 ## - Concatenation

Lecture 82 # - Stringization / Stringification

Lecture 83 #pragma Directive

Section 10: File System IO

Lecture 84 Introduction to File system IO

Lecture 85 Basic File IO Program - modes concepts - Writing TEXT file

Lecture 86 Reading text file, appending TEXT

Lecture 87 Writing Binary files

Lecture 88 Reading Binary file

Lecture 89 Binary mode extra

Lecture 90 Seeking - determine file size

Lecture 91 Determine End of File when reading

Section 11: Unicode support in C program - data types and corresponding functions

Lecture 92 Introduction to Unicode

Lecture 93 What is Wide character?

Lecture 94 Visually Understanding the Wide character

Lecture 95 Unicode specific String and File IO Functions

Section 12: Pointers in C

Lecture 96 Introduction to Pointers in C

Lecture 97 Address and Value Modification

Lecture 98 Dynamic Memory Allocation

Lecture 99 Pointers in Functions Parameters

Lecture 100 Effictive memory usage

Lecture 101 Use of pointers in Data Structures

Lecture 102 String Example - in regards to Pointers

Lecture 103 Pointer Arithmetic in C

Lecture 104 Typecasting in regards to Pointers

Lecture 105 Function Pointers in general

Lecture 106 Function Pointers with Structures

Lecture 107 Restricting target of Pointer

Section 13: Storage Classes in C & Type Qualifiers

Lecture 108 Introduction to Storage Classes

Lecture 109 Use of "auto" in C

Lecture 110 Use of "static" in C

Lecture 111 What is "register" keyword used for?

Lecture 112 What is "extern" keyword used for?

Lecture 113 What is inline keyword used for?

Lecture 114 What is "volatile" keyword used for

Lecture 115 Creating Cleanup functions in C - concepts

Section 14: Student database project - v1 / v2 - hands-on training

Lecture 116 Introduction to Project

Lecture 117 Creating data structures for project

Lecture 118 Creating simple User Interface

Lecture 119 Implementing simple Reading / Writing functions

Lecture 120 Writing a new rercord

Lecture 121 Reading All Records

Lecture 122 Searching for certain Record

Lecture 123 Bonus - Create database in MS Excel & LibreOffice for same program

Lecture 124 Converting to binary - Updating writing routine

Lecture 125 Converting to binary - Updating reading routine

Section 15: External Libraries & headers

Lecture 126 Introduction & SOC

Lecture 127 Header files in C Program

Lecture 128 Static Library files .a / .lib

Lecture 129 Shared Libraries - creating DLL

Lecture 130 Program 1 - Implicit Linking of DLL

Lecture 131 Program 2 - Explicit Linking of DLL

Lecture 132 Working with large numbers - using GMP DLL

Lecture 133 Working with SQLite in C - Linking SQLite 3 DLL

Section 16: Web Programming using C & CGI

Lecture 134 Introduction to Web Programming using C & CGI

Lecture 135 Web server requirements

Lecture 136 Apache configuration updates to run C program, CGI

Lecture 137 HTTP Output basics

Lecture 138 HTTP methods basics [GET, POST]

Lecture 139 Form handling in C - Web Applciation

Section 17: BONUS Chapter - Student Database Project - v3 - Web application in C

Lecture 140 Introduction - SOC First

Lecture 141 Explore Code and understand whole Application

Lecture 142 About premade CSS Libraries for our C based Web Application

Section 18: BONUS Chapter - Student Database Project - v4 - Upgrading v3 Application

Lecture 143 What exactly is the Update to v3? (Update / Delete ) - Revised + Explained

Section 19: Data-Structures & Algorithms - An Introduction

Lecture 144 Introduction

Lecture 145 Stack (LIFO) - Data Structure

Lecture 146 Stack - Implementation

Lecture 147 Queue (FIFO) - Data Structure

Lecture 148 Queue - Implementation

Lecture 149 Linked List (singly) - Data Structure

Lecture 150 Linked List (singly) - Implementation

Lecture 151 Doubly Linked List - Data Structure

Lecture 152 Doubly Linked List - Implementation

Lecture 153 Circular Linked List - Data Structure

Lecture 154 Circular Linked List - Implementation

Lecture 155 Tree - Data Structure

Lecture 156 Tree - Implementation

Lecture 157 Graph - Data Structure

Lecture 158 Hash Table / Map - Data Structure

Lecture 159 Hash Table - Implementation

Lecture 160 Sorting

Section 20: Bitwise operators / Bit Manipulation

Lecture 161 Introduction to Bitwise Operations

Lecture 162 Bitwise Operators & their use

Lecture 163 Bit 2 Bit Counting - Determining integer value of a bitstring

Lecture 164 Understanding Bitwise Operators

Lecture 165 Assignment operators revised for bitwise operations

Lecture 166 Checking if certain bit is set in data

Lecture 167 Setting certain bit in data - Turning a bit ON

Lecture 168 Inverting certain bit in data

Lecture 169 Clearing certain bit in data - Turning OFF a bit

Lecture 170 Creating bit manipulation macros for ease

Lecture 171 Printing number in Binary format

Section 21: BONUS Chapter - GUI Programming using C - Microsoft Windows - introduction

Lecture 172 Introduction - WINAPI Application Internals

Lecture 173 GUI programming with premade libraries

Lecture 174 A Windows API based Program

Lecture 175 Configuration & Program structure (It is too easy)

Lecture 176 Native Controls

Lecture 177 Binding Procedures to Events

Lecture 178 Common Form Styles & Events

Lecture 179 Controls' visibility and state

Lecture 180 Controls' text value - setting and getting text value

Lecture 181 Text Box styles, events and value

Lecture 182 Combo box events and value

Lecture 183 Listbox events and value

Lecture 184 Checkbox events and value

Lecture 185 Radio button events and value

Lecture 186 Track events and value (slider)

Lecture 187 Guage value and updates (progressbar)

Lecture 188 Table control - Columns, Rows, events

Lecture 189 Image control - color / monochrome

Section 22: BONUS Chapter - Student database Project v5 (+Exercise)- Windows GUI Application

Lecture 190 Explanation of Project (going though source) + Assignment

Section 23: BONUS Chapter - Object Oriented Programming using C - OOP

Lecture 191 Introduction / Common sense of OOP - What is OOP?

Lecture 192 Basic OOP Example using C

Lecture 193 Forward Declarations

Lecture 194 Heavy use of Macros in OOP -C

Section 24: BONUS Chapter - Additional Useful topics [lectures added time to time]

Lecture 195 Program Executable size reduction

Lecture 196 Grab External program's output in your program

Absolute Beginners, or developers of any other programming languages willing to explore power of C (e.g. php, perl, javascript, actionscript, C++, java, C#, kotlin, GO, swift developers),or - Programmers that are willing to learn about low-level programming language,or - C / C++ programmers who are willing to get stated with creating basic Web / GUI applications in C,or - C / C++ programmers willing to learn about Bit manipulation further / Data Structures & algorithms,or - O / A Level students, College Students, University Students (having subject of structured programming)