Computer Programming in C for Beginners

Chapter 1: Installing and Using Code::Blocks; creating a source file, compiling and executing it

1.1  Downloading and installing Code::Blocks

1.2  Compiling and executing your first C program

1.3  Writing your first program

Chapter 2: Variables, memory and operators

1.1  Variables - a brief Introduction

1.2  Declaring simple variables

1.2.2        Setting values of variables

1.2.2.1  Integer variables

1.2.2.2  Floating point variables

1.2.2.3  Double Precision floating point variables

1.3  Working with variables and operators

1.3.1        Addition, subtraction and multiplication

1.3.2        Division

1.3.3        Increment/decrement operators

1.4  Constants

1.5  Summary

Chapter 3: Selection Structures

3.1  Selection Structures - a short intro

3.2  Single-selection structures

3.3  Double-selection structures

3.4  Multiple-selection structures

3.5  Exercise for the student

3.6  The switch structure

3.7  Summary

Chapter 4: Repetition Structures

4.1   Repetition Structures - a short intro

4.2   for Loops

4.3   The while loop

4.4   The do-while loop

4.5   Summary

Chapter 5: Defining and Calling Programmer-defined Functions

5.1  Defining and calling functions - a short intro

5.2  Defining functions

5.4  Returning values

5.5  Passing values of variables to functions

5.6  Summary

Chapter 6: Pointer variables

6.1  Pointers - a short intro

6.2  Declaring and initializing pointers

6.3  Input/output with pointers

6.4  Calling functions by reference with pointers

6.5  Pointer arithmetic

6.6  Double pointers

6.7  Summary

Chapter 7: Arrays

7.1  Arrays - a short intro

7.3  Arrays, pointers and pointer math

7.4  Arrays and loops

7.5  Passing arrays to functions

Chapter 8: Structures

8.2  Instantiating structure variables

8.2.1        Instantiating within the body of the struct definition

8.2.2        Instantiating structure variables using the structure tag

8.2.3        Defining new data types with typedef

8.3  Member access operators: the Dot and the Arrow operators

8.5  Structures, arrays and loops

8.6  Summary

Chapter 9: Strings, Advanced I/O

9.1  Strings - a deeper treatment

9.1.1        Initializing strings

9.1.2        Setting values to string variables

9.1.3        The length of a string

9.1.4        Comparing strings

9.2  Advanced I/O

9.2.1        The width specifier

9.2.2        The .precision specifier

9.2.3        The flag specifier

9.3  External file I/O

9.3.1        Writing to external files

9.3.2        Reading from external files

9.4  Summary

Chapter 10: Dynamic Memory Allocation, Multi-file programs

10.2How to allocate memory dynamically

10.4Summary

Chapter 11: Linked Lists

11.1Linked structures - a brief introduction

11.2How to link together dynamically-allocated memory

11.3Traversing a linked list

11.4Inserting nodes into an existing linked list

11.4.1    Inserting new nodes at the front of the linked list

11.5Deleting nodes from the list

11.6Summary

Chapter 12: Searching and Sorting

12.1  Searching

12.2  Sorting a List

12.2.1    Selection Sort

12.2.2    Bubble Sort

12.3  Summary