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C Tutorial

C is a powerful systems programming language. Learn C with our popular C tutorial, which will take you from the very basics of C all the way through sophisticated topics like binary trees and data structures.

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Introduction and Basic C Features

• Intro to C
• If statements
• Loops in C
• Functions and Program Organization
• Switch case

Pointers, Arrays and Strings

• Pointers
• Structures
• Arrays
• C-style Strings

File IO and command line arguments

• C File I/O
• Typecasting
• Command line arguments

Linked lists, binary trees, recursion

• Linked Lists
• Recursion
• Variable argument lists
• Binary Trees

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