1.Introduction -A Brief History of the C Language -features -Why use C?

Variables and Expressions -CONSTANTS, VARIABLES AND KEYWORDS 3.1 Variable Declaration 3.2 Variable Types 3.3 Variable Names 3.4 Assignment 3.5 Arithmetic Operators 3.6 Increment and Decrement Operators 3.7 Cast Operators 3.8 Bitwise Operators 3.9 Promotions and Conversions 3.10 Parsing Rules 3.11 Symbolic Constants and The Preprocessor Input and Output 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Formatted Output printf Conversion Specifiers Literal Constants Formatted Input scanf Character I/O getchar & putchar End-of-File

Flow of Control 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 Relational and Logical Operators Conditional Branching if Conditional Selection switch Iteration while, for Local Jumps goto Short Circuit Behaviour Problems Declaring Array Variables Initialising Array Variables

Functions 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Building Blocks of Programs Return Value Function Parameters Variable Function Parameters Function Definition and Declaration Function Prototypes

Scope, Blocks and Variables 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Blocks and Scope Variable Storage Classes Declaration versus Definition Initialisation of Variables

Arrays, Pointers and Strings

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Pointers are Addresses Pointers are not Integers The * and & Operators Declaring Pointer Variables Pointers and Arrays Dynamically Sized Arrays The NULL Pointer and Pointer to void Pointer Arithmetic Strings

Files 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 File Pointers Opening a File Program Argument I/O Streams Redirection of I/O Streams

Structures, Unions and Fields 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Enumerated Types Defining New Names for Types with typedef Structures Unions Field

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