Chapters:

• Absolute basics
• Languages: natural and artificial
• Machine languages
• High-level programming languages
• Obtaining the machine code: compilation process
• Recommended readings
• Your first program
• Variable – why?
• Integer values in real life and in “C”, integer literals

Data types

• Floating point values in real life and in “C”, float literals
• Arithmetic operators
• Priority and binding
• Post- and pre -incrementation and -decrementation
• Operators of type op=
• Char type and ASCII code, char literals
• Equivalence of int and char data
• Comparison operators
• Conditional execution and if keyword
• printf() and scanf() functions: absolute basics
• Flow control
• Conditional execution continued: the “else” branch
• More integer and float types
• Conversions – why?
• Typecast and its operators
• Loops – while, do and for
• Controlling the loop execution – break and continue
• Logical and bitwise operators

Arrays

• Switch: different faces of ‘if’
• Arrays (vectors) – why do you need them?
• Sorting in real life and in a computer memory
• Initiators: a simple way to set an array
• Pointers: another kind of data in “C”
• An address, a reference, a dereference and the sizeof operator
• Simple pointer and pointer to nothing (NULL) & operator
• Pointers arithmetic
• Pointers vs. arrays: different forms of the same phenomenon
• Using strings: basics
• Basic functions dedicated to string manipulation
• Memory management and structures
• The meaning of array indexing
• The usage of pointers: perils and disadvantages
• Void type
• Arrays of arrays and multidimensional arrays
• Memory allocation and deallocation: malloc() and free() functions
• Arrays of pointers vs. multidimensional arrays
• Structures – why?
• Declaring, using and initializing structures
• Pointers to structures and arrays of structures
• Basics of recursive data collections

Functions

• Functions – why?
• How to declare, define and invoke a function
• Variables’ scope, local variables and function parameters
• Pointers, arrays and structures as function parameters
• Function result and return statement
• Void as a parameter, pointer and result
• Parameterzing the main function
• External function and the extern declarator
• Header files and their role