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***** C Programming Notes by Steve Summit -- this is an excellent online course that contains both notes and assignments (Introductory course Assignments. and Intermediate C Programming Assignments). Very knowledgeable and generous author. Highly recommended if you have K&R book (you should !)
Chapter about Data structures from Instant C by Ivor Horton
***+ C Language Tutorial Coronado Enterprises (shareware); This is more or less honest attempt to create a turotial that can is usable.

***+ C Programming www.eskimo.com Contains Introductory C Programming Class Notes by Steve Summit -- Noted to K&R.

These notes are part of the UW Experimental College course on Introductory C Programming. They are based on notes prepared (beginning in Spring, 1995) to supplement the book The C Programming Language, by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, or K&R as the book and its authors are affectionately known. (The second edition was published in 1988 by Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-110362-8.) These notes are now (as of Winter, 1995-6) intended to be stand-alone, although the sections are still cross-referenced to those of K&R, for the reader who wants to pursue a more in-depth exposition.

**** C Programming see also Programming in C (Steve Holmes) (Strathclyde, Scotland). -- Unix oriented, redistributable
The C Programming Language Answers To Exercises -- answers to exersises for a classic book. "The C Programming Language", 2nd edition.
***+ Programming in C by Dave Marshall (Cardiff, Wales). Unix oriented notes. Contains useful exercises. Last updated March 1999. All notes here are copyrighted. Copying etc. is not permitted. Treatment of many topics is somewhat too concise for the beginner..
Chapter about pointers from Practical C Programming (Nutshell Handbook) -- very good chapter -- probably best explanation of pointers available on the net
*** Introduction to C Programming by Brian Brown (nz). Not much content. But it contains exercises and interactive tests.
C C++ Tutorials - Learn C language today
ANSI C for Programmers on UNIX Systems by Tim Love, Cambridge University. redistibutable for educational purposes
C Traps and Pitfalls ps (Andrew Koenig). Also available from C-Style Page
Introduction to C Programming -- Rob Miles
Numerical Recipes Books On-Line
DevCentral Tutorials Introduction to C Programming by Marshall Brian.
C Courseware
Phil's C Course -- Version 1.1 © Phil Ottewell 1995,1998

Learn C Programming -- a learning CD with an audio track

Notes on Writing Portable Programs in C

University Courses

***** C Programming Notes by Steve Summit -- this is an excellent online course that contains both notes and assignments (Introductory course Assignments. and Intermediate C Programming Assignments). Very knowledgeable and generous author. Highly recommended.
The notes on these pages are for the courses in C Programming I used to teach in the Experimental College at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. Normally these notes accompany fairly traditional classroom lecture presentations, but they are intended to be reasonably complete (more so, for that matter, than the lectures!) and should be usable as standalone tutorials.

I originally designed the first, Introductory course around The C Programming Language (2nd Edition) by Kernighan and Ritchie, and the notes were designed to complement that text, highlighting important points and explaining subtleties which might be lost on the general reader. Later, I rewrote the notes to stand on their own (in part because, in spite of the first set of notes, too many of my students found K&R a bit too technical for an informal, introductory course). Finally, I occasionally teach an Intermediate course, which covers the topics which tend to be skipped or glossed over in introductory courses (bitwise operators, structures, file I/O, etc.). The Intermediate course has its own set of notes.

All three sets of notes are available here. If you have a copy of K&R2 and would like a thorough treatment of the language, read K&R and the ``Notes to Accompany K&R'' side by side. If you're just getting your feet wet and would like a somewhat simpler introduction, read the ``Introductory Class Notes.'' If you have had an introduction to C (either here or elsewhere) and are now looking to fill in some of the missing pieces, read the ``Intermediate Class Notes.''

Of course, just reading a book or these notes won't really teach you C; you will also want to write and run your own programs, for practice and so that the language concepts will make some kind of practical sense. Most of my programming assignments (including review questions) are here as well, along with their solution sets. (No peeking at the answers until you've given the problems your best shot!)

These notes are arranged for the web in the usual hierarchy by section and subsection. If you want to read through all of them, without keeping track of your own stack to implement a depth-first tree traversal, just follow the ``read sequentially'' links at the bottom of each page.
C Programming Course - Course notes by Steve Holmes. (Strathclyde, Scotland). -- Unix oriented.
EL165 Introduction to Computing using C by Martin Brown
Phil's C Course -- Version 1.1 © Phil Ottewell 1995,1996
cs1005 Home Page
Introduction to C Programming -- Introduction. Lecture notes, interactive tests, and links to related materials. By Brian Brown, Central Institute of Technology, New Zealand.
Introduction to Computer Science -- Introduction to programming using C. Syllabus and lecture notes. By Sanjiv K. Bhatia, University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Articles and Chapters

[Jan 9, 2000]redhat.com support An Introduction to C Development on Linux by Nathan Thomas <nthomas@redhat.com>

Switching to Linux for your development projects can seem like a daunting task at first but given a little direction, you will find that the development environment is both powerful and easy to use.

This paper is designed as an introduction to development under Linux, and will help you get your feet wet with all of the tools that you will need for a large scale development project. For now, the scope of this tutorial is writing a program in C, and includes information on text editing, compiling, debugging, and version control.

Overview
Setting Up Your Shell
Developing a Simple C Program with vi and gcc
Using gdb to Debug a C Program
Compiling Multiple .c and .h Files
Using make to Simplify the Build Process
Using the Concurrent Versions System for Source Management
Final Thoughts and Resources
**** C Traps and Pitfalls ps (Andrew Koenig). Also available from C-Style Page
The C programmer's pages -- C and Pascal: The Love Story
C vs Pascal notes -- useful comparison. Need work...
C-Style Page -- good collection of papers
Selected Computing Sciences Technical Reports from Bell Labs
Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language by B. W. Kernighan -- Must read. A rebellious paper written at the time of when structured programming and verification religious movement was close to its top, and to criticize Pascal what rather dangerous undertaking. Kerningan has problems with finding a publisher.

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howstuffworks : C tutorial	Complete, thoroughly-illustrated C Programming Language tutorial with many examples to assist in becoming a C programmer.
C library reference guide	Complete reference to the ANSI C language.
tutorial: Pointers and Arrays	A tutorial on pointers and arrays in the C programming language by Ted Jensen.
c course	a very good online course
c programming notes	c programming notes
c in 5 hours	c in 5 hours
Programming in C: A Tutorial	Programming in C: A Tutorial
C Tutorial For Beginners	Intends to teach C to someone with no previous experience.
C for C++ Programmers	Highlights the differences with C++ including comments, input/output, memory allocation, variable declarations, constants, structures, booleans, libraries and suggested reading.
C For C++ Programmers	Introduction to the subset of C++ and differences between the languages including scope, data structures, function behavior, library functions, input/output and compiling.
Outputting text	outputting text in C
Use of variables in C	The use of Variables in 'C'. - Variable types -Global, local, static. Where to Declare Variables. Strings can't be declared as a string.
Intro to C	covers a little about C, printf, and newline esc.
C variables	a little about variables in C
Ground cero guide to C	Attempts to introduce absolute beginners to C.
The basics of singly linked lists	The basics of singly linked lists
Crash proof C/C++ code	Christopher McGee explains the different causes of crashes and how to make them a thing of the past by following a few simple rules as you write code.
C elements of style	This book covers only the C language and is a bit out dated. However it still contains a lot of good advice. HTML and pdf versions available
Intro to pointers	An article showing the use of pointers in C and C++
First C program	Hello world in C
Constants and variables	Constants and variables in C
Data types	All about C's data types
type modifiers	type modifiers
Arithmetic operators	Arithmetic operators
Input And Output	Input And Output in C
Printf and Scanf	Displaying output and recieving input
Comparison and Logical Operators	Comparison and Logical Operators
Conditional Branching 1 and 2	Conditional Branching 1 and 2
Looping	looping in C
Bitwise operators 1	Bitwise operators part 1
Bitwise operators 2	Bitwise operators part 2
Bitwise operators 3	Bitwise operators part 3
Functions	All about functions
Arrays 1	Arrays in C part 1
Arrays 2	Arrays in C part 2
Passing arrays to functions	passing arrays to functions
Pointers 1	Pointers tutorial part 1
Pointers 2	Pointers tutorial part 2
Pointers 3	Pointers tutorial part 3
Strings 1	About strings in C part 1
Strings 2	About strings in C part 2
String / Number conversion	Converting between strings and numbers in C
String functions	Functions to manipulate strings in C
Enum and Typedef	About enum and typedef in C
Structures 1	Structures part 1
Structures 2	Structures in C part 2
Structures 3	About structures and C part 3
Unions	Unions and C
Memory allocation	Memory management in your programs
Simply C	An intro to C
Advanced Linked Lists	This tutorial will cover the rest of the more advanced features and uses of linked lists
Bit manipulation	This tutorial will introduce you to the binary and hexadecimal number systems, and teach you how to manipulate individual bits
loading a wav file	A tutorial with code, that shows how to load a .wav file in C
loops in C	a short tutorial about loops in C
pointers in C	This is a small primer on pointers in C. A must for a beginner.
Pointers and arrays in C	A well-written and comprehensive tutorial, about pointers and arrays in C.
C windows programming	Large tutorial on Windows Programming with C. Explains how to deal with menus, dialogs, windows, files and more...
Bug free C code	Online book by Jerry Jongerius advocates a style of programming based upon classes, data abstraction, run-time type checking, and fault tolerant functions which results in bug-free C code.
ansi c reference	This is a guide to all ANSI-C functions that exists.
gametutorials C tutorials	A nice collection of downloadable code examples . Well documented .
Coronado C course (commercial)	The C tutorial teaches you the entire C language. It covers the ANSI-C standard and gives a few illustrations of the original K&R C language. It is composed of 13 chapters which should be studied in order since topics are introduced in a logical sequence and build upon topics introduced in previous chapters.
Pointers to functions in C	This article explains Pointers to Functions in C. There may be thousands of programmers who know how to use pointers to functions, but I know that there are many, many more who have no idea what it is and how to use it. This article is for those who know C programming very well, but are not yet familiar with this wonderful concept of using pointers to functions.
Variables	Variables in C
Operators	Operators in C
Constructs	constructs for program flow
Arrays	Arrays in C
Functions	Functions in C
Pointers and strings	Pointers and strings in C
Memory	Memory allocation in C
Structures	Structures in C
Linked lists	Linked lists in C
File handling	File handling in C
Command line arguments	Command line arguments in C
bitwise operators	Bitwise operators in C
Debugging	Debugging and testing in C
First program	your first ever program - Hello World
declaring, variables, keywords, case sensitivness	declaring, variables, keywords, case sensitivness
declaring, constants, directives	declaring, constants, directives
I/O	input, output, conversion characters, gets, puts, scanf, printf - I/O
if.. else and else if - selection statements	if.. else and else if - selection statements
logical operators	logical operators - short summary
the switch() case statement	the switch() case statement
iteration statements	while loop, do..while loop, for loop - iteration statements
one dimensional arrays, string literals	one dimensional arrays, string literals
strings	strings, strcpy(),
introduction to pointers	introduction to pointers
functions, function protytypes	functions, function protytypes
Introduction to C/C++ Compilers	Introduction to C/C++ Compilers
Input, Output and Libraries	Input, Output and Libraries
Using Different Data Types	Using Different Data Types
Initializing Variables and Arithmetic Operators	Initializing Variables and Arithmetic Operators
Declaring Constants and Preprocessor Directives	Declaring Constants and Preprocessor Directives
Comments, Errors, clrscr(), writing good readable programs	Comments, Errors, clrscr(), writing good readable programs
One Dimensional Arrays and Strings	One Dimensional Arrays and Strings
Relational Operators	Relational Operators, the switch statement and use of indentation
for loops	for loops
while and do ...while Loops	while and do ...while Loops
Functions, Local and Global Variables	Functions, Local and Global Variables
using atoi(), atof(), strcpy(), toupper(), stdlib.h, ctype.h, string.h header files	using atoi(), atof(), strcpy(), toupper(), stdlib.h, ctype.h, string.h header files
Keywords	C Keywords
libraries	libraries in C
c guide	programmers guide to C
ctutorde	C language tutorial, style, and quiz program
Lesson 1: Hello World	Lesson 1: Hello World
Lesson 2: Variables	Lesson 2: Variables
Lesson 3: Constants	Lesson 3: Constants
Lesson 4: Input and Output	Lesson 4: Input and Output
Lesson 6: Conditional Processing, Part 2	Lesson 6: Conditional Processing, Part 2
Lesson 7: Looping	Lesson 7: Looping
Lesson 8: Introduction to Pointers	Lesson 8: Introduction to Pointers
Lesson 10: Strings	Lesson 10: Strings
Lesson 11: Structures	Lesson 11: Structures
Lesson 12: Memory Allocation	Lesson 12: Memory Allocation
Lesson 13: File I/0 and Command Line Arguments	Lesson 13: File I/0 and Command Line Arguments
Lesson 14: Functions	Lesson 14: Functions
Lesson 15: Scope and Program Structure	Lesson 15: Scope and Program Structure
VGA Basics	Setting the video mode, plotting a pixel, and mode 0x13 memory.
Primitive Shapes & Lines	Drawing lines, polygons, rectangles, and circles. Also, Bresenham's algorithm, fixed-point math and pre-computing tables.
Bitmaps & Palette Manipulation	The BMP file format, drawing bitmaps, and palette manipulation.
Mouse Support & Animation	Mouse status, motion, and buttons. Also, animation.
Double Buffering, Page Flipping, & Unchained Mode	Double buffering, page flipping, structure of unchained mode, and 256-color modes other than 320x200.
Pointers	Pointers
Pointers And Arrays	Pointers And Arrays
Brief Intro on Recursion	Brief Intro on Recursion
Codevision C turorial	A simple tutorial in PDF format to get up and running with codevision C compiler for AVR microcontrollers

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