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1 C Language TUTORIALThis Tutorial teaches the entire C programming Language . It is composed of 13 chapters which should be studied in order since topics are introduced in a logical order and build upon topics introduced in previous chapters. It is to the students benefit to download the source code for the example programs, then compile and execute each program as it is studied. The diligent student will modify the example program in some way, then recompile and execute it to see if he understands the material studied for that program. This will provide the student with valuable experience using his recommended method of study is to print the text for one or two chapters, download the example programs, and study the material by loading the example programs in the compiler's editor for viewing.

2 Following successful completion of each chapter, additional chapters can be downloaded as progress is - Sept 8, 1996 This Tutorial is distributed as shareware which means that you do not have to pay to use it. However, the author spent a good deal of time and financial resources to develop this Tutorial and requests that you share in the financial burden in a very small way, but only if you felt the Tutorial was valuable to you as an aid in learning to program in C. If you wish to remit a small payment to the author, full instructions for doing so will be given by clicking the link below.

3 If you do not wish to remit any payment, please feel free to use the Tutorial anyway. In either case, I hope you find programming in C to be rewarding and profitable. I personally think it is an excellent to Remit Payment For this Tutorial !Introduction - What is C and why study it?Chapter 1 - Getting StartedChapter 2 - Program StructureChapter 3 - Program ControlChapter 4 - Assignment & Logical CompareChapter 5 - Functions, Variables, & PrototypingChapter 6 - The C PreprocessorChapter 7 - Strings and ArraysChapter 8 - PointersChapter 9 - Standard Input/OutputChapter 10 - File Input/OutputChapter 11 - StructuresChapter 12 - Dynamic AllocationChapter 13 - Character and Bit ManipulationSource Code - ( ) Download all example programs.

4 This file (about 41k) contains 79 source files which are all explained in the 13 chapters of text. There are no executable files in this group of to Exercises- ( ) Download the authors answers to all of the programming exercises. This file (about 11k) contains 27 source files. There are no executable files in this group of executable - ( ) Download version to unzip the source code. This executable is pre-registered for your use in unzipping any Coronado Enterprises Tutorial files. It will unpack and generate the zipped files in the current directory and all will be ASCII source code files.

5 To unzip the source code files, execute the following DOS command; pkunzip , to unzip the answers to programming exercises, execute the following DOS command; pkunzip 1988-1996 Coronado Enterprises - Last update, September 8, 1996 Gordon Dodrill - - Please email any comments or suggestions. CORONADO ENTERPRISES TUTORIALSHOW TO REGISTER AMOUNT OF PAYMENTIf you are satisfied with the quality of the Tutorial (s) which you are interested in, you can submit a registration fee to help defray the cost of developing the Tutorial and to provide funds for developing additional tutorials or programming information.

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7 There is really nothing additional to offer you since all of the tutorials are available for downloading in their entirity from this Web site. There is no "crippleware" within this web site, nor will there ever is limited capability software for which a payment is required to get the full you for your interest in our tutorials and for visiting our Web Enterprises - Last update, May 2, 1996 Gordon Dodrill - - Please email any comments or suggestions. Introduction to the C Tutorial C IS USUALLY FIRST The programming Language C was originally developed by Dennis Ritchie of Bell Laboratories and was designed to run on a PDP-11 with a UNIX operating system.

8 Although it was originally intended to run under UNIX, there has been a great interest in running it under the MS-DOS operating system on the IBM PC and compatibles. It is an excellent Language for this environment because of the simplicity of expression, the compactness of the code, and the wide range of applicability. Also, due to the simplicity and ease of writing a C compiler, it is usually the first high level Language available on any new computer, including microcomputers, minicomputers, and mainframes. C is not the best beginning Language because it is somewhat cryptic in nature.

9 It allows the programmer a wide range of operations from high level down to a very low level, approaching the level of assembly Language . There seems to be no limit to the flexibility available. One experienced C programmer made the statement, "You can program anything in C", and the statement is well supported by my own experience with the Language . Along with the resulting freedom however, you take on a great deal of responsibility because it is very easy to write a program that destroys itself due to the silly little errors that a good Pascal compiler will flag and call a fatal error.

10 In C, you are very much on your own as you will soon find. I ASSUME YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT CIn order to successfully complete this Tutorial , you will not need any prior knowlede of the C programming Language . I will begin with the most basic concepts of C and take you up to the highest level of C programming including the usually intimidating concepts of pointers, structures, and dynamic allocation. To fully understand these concepts, it will take a good bit of time and work on your part because they are not particularly easy to grasp, but they are very powerful tools.