This is a course about programming in the C programming language. It is my own way of teaching C, meaning that it basically tells how I program in C. I tried to explain this "from the very beginning", explaining some of the basic ideas too, though it will benefit from some previous experience with using a computer. In particular I assume people to have some idea of what a "memory" or a "CPU" is. In one place, I assume someone knows what a register is actually :-)

The course has two major "special" ingredients:

• It explains how to create C classes. Yes, I mean classes in the sense of object orientation. Of course C is not an object-oriented language, but in fact it offers many interesting features that can be used to create simple classes. The FILE type is indeed one such class; therefore I call this practice "the FILE methodology."
• It deals very much with parsing, the old fashioned way: many pages of this course are devoted to two classic tool for creating tool that parse context-free grammars: Lex and YACC (aka GNU/Flex and GNU/Bison).

Why special emphasys to the above ingredients? Well, because :-). Meaning, because those are the tools and concepts that I have been using more when programming in C.

Should you like to do so, submit your exercises / comments / questions to [email protected] -- I don't promise that I will answer soon, but I do promise I will answer :-)

Enjoy!

• Note: Aim of this course is not to introduce OOP; only, to explain that one can use C in a "different", possibly sounder way. C is still used in several embedded products; some of these products deliver safety-critical services! I thought it was important to tell how I deal with managing complexity in C.