Chapter 1  Introduction

  1.1  Computer Hardware

  1.2  Software and Program

  1.3  Programming Languages

  1.4  History and Features of the C Programming Language

  Questions & Exercises

Chapter 2  Basics of the C Programming Language

  2.1  Key Concepts

  2.2  Data Types

  2.3  Variables

  2.4  Constants

  2.5  printf and scanf

    2.5.1  printf

    2.5.2  scanf

  Questions & Exercises

Chapter 3  Operators and Expressions

  3.1  Arithmetic Operators

  3.2  Assignment Operators

  3.3  Increment and Decrement Operators

  3.4  Bitwise Operators

  3.5  sizeof Operator

  3.6  Precedence and Order of Evaluation

  3.7  Type Conversions

  Questions & Exercises

Chapter4  Program ControlFlows

  4.1  Three Control Flows

  4.2  Flow Chart

  4.3  NS Diagram

  4.4  Continuation Control Flow

  4.5  Algorithms

  Questions & Exercises

Chapter 5  Selections

  5.1  Relational Operators

  5.2  Logical Operators

  5.3  if-else

  5.4  if-else if-else

  5.5  Nested if-else

  5.6  switch-case

  5.7  Conditional Expressions

  Questions & Exercises

Chapter 6  Loops

  6.1  while

  6.2  do-while

  6.3  for

  6.4  break and continue

  6.5  Nested Loops

  6.6  goto

  Questions & Exercises

Chapter 7  Arrays

  7.1  One-Dimensional Arrays

  7.2  Arrays and Loops

  7.3  Sorting Algorithms

    7.3.1  Selection Sorting

    7.3.2  Bubble Sorting

    7.3.3  Insertion Sorting

    7.3.4  Another Sorting Algorithm

  7.4  Two-Dimensional Arrays

  7.5  Character Arrays and Strings

  Questions & Exercises

Chapter 8  Functions

  8.1  Function Definitions

  8.2  Function Calls

  8.3  Formal Arguments and Actual Arguments

  8.4  Recursions

  8.5  Function Prototype Declarations

  8.6  Standard Library

  Questions & Exercises

Chapter 9  Program Organization

  9.1  Organization of Large Programs

  9.2  Function Scope Rules

  9.3  Variable Scope Rules

  9.4  Variable Lifetimes and Initializations

  9.5  Preprocessor Commands

    9.5.1  File Inclusion Preprocessor Command

    9.5.2  Macro Substitution Preprocessor Commands

    9.5.3  Conditional Inclusion Preprocessor Commands

  Questions & Exercises

Chapter 10  Structures and Unions

    10.1  Basics of Structures

    10.2  Structure Variables

    10.3  Structures with Functions and Arrays

  10.4  typedef

  10.5  Bit-fields in a Structure

  10.6  Basics of Unions

    10.6.1  Union Types and Variables

    10.6.2  Memory Allocation of Union Variables

  Questions & Exercises

Chapter 11  Pointers

  11.1  Addresses and Pointers

  11.2  Pointer Variables

    11.2.1  Definitions of Pointer Variables

    11.2.2  Dereferences of Pointers

  11.3  Pointers and Arrays

    11.3.1  Memory Allocations of Arrays

    11.3.2  Pointers Point to One-dimensional Arrays

    11.3.3  Pointers Point to Two-dimensional Arrays

    11.3.4  Pointer Arrays

  11.4  Pointers and Functions

    11.4.1  Pointers Act as Arguments of Functions

    11.4.2  Functions That Return Pointer Values

    11.4.3  Pointers Point to Functions

  11.5  Pointers and Structures

    11.5.1  Pointers Point to Structures

    11.5.2  Dynamic Memory Allocation

  11.6  Basics of Linked Lists

    11.6.1  Creations of Linked Lists

    11.6.2  Other Operations of Linked Lists

  Questions & Exercises

Chapter 12  File Operations

  12.1  Files and File Types

  12.2  File Pointers

  12.3  Sequential File Access

    12.3.1  Read/Write Characters

    12.3.2  Read/Write Strings

    12.3.3  Read/Write Formatted Data

    12.3.4  Read/Write Data Block

  12.4  Random File Access

  12.5  Error Handling

  Questions & Exercises

Appendix A  ASCII Character Set

Appendix B  Precedence and Associativity of Operators

Appendix C  Summary of Standard Library

Appendix D  Introduction to Development Environments