BrainBit Infotech TeachingProgramming Fundamentals · Beginner · 40 hours
C Programming
The full first-semester C paper as slides — a day-by-day syllabus from your first program to linked lists, with a practical at the end of every module and a Student Record Management System capstone.
Syllabus
| Module | Covers |
|---|---|
| Days 1–2 · Foundations | What C is, the compilation pipeline, setup, program anatomy, algorithms and flowcharts, tokens, error types |
| Days 3–4 · Data & Operators | Data types, sizeof, constants, literals, every operator family, precedence, type casting |
| Day 5 · Input & Output | printf in depth, scanf, character I/O, the input buffer trap |
| Days 6–7 · Control Flow | if ladders, switch, while, do-while, for, nested loops, break and continue, patterns |
| Days 8–9 · Functions & Recursion | Prototypes, call by value, scope, storage classes, recursion, the call stack |
| Days 10–11 · Arrays & Strings | 1D and 2D arrays, linear and binary search, three sorts, char arrays, string.h |
| Days 12–13 · Pointers | Address-of and dereference, pointer arithmetic, call by reference, function pointers |
| Day 14 · Dynamic Memory | malloc, calloc, realloc, free, leaks, dangling pointers, dynamic 2D arrays |
| Days 15–16 · Structures | struct, arrays of structs, nested structs, typedef, union, enum, padding |
| Day 17 · Files & Preprocessor | FILE pointers, text and binary I/O, seeking, macros, include guards, multi-file builds |
| Days 18–20 · Data Structures in C | Linked lists, stacks, queues, circular queues, and the Student Record System capstone |
What your students will be able to do
- Explain what the preprocessor, compiler, assembler and linker each do
- Choose the right data type and predict what a cast will lose
- Read and write formatted input and output, and avoid the scanf buffer trap
- Choose the right conditional and the right loop for a problem
- Write functions with prototypes, and explain call by value
- Write and trace a function that uses recursion, and say when iteration is better
- Search and sort an array, and compare linear with binary search
- Work with strings as char arrays and write your own string.h functions
- Use pointers for call by reference, array traversal and function arguments
- Allocate and free memory correctly, and recognise a leak or a dangling pointer
- Model records with structures, unions and enumerations
- Read and write both text and binary files, and recover from a file error
- Build a singly linked list, a stack and a queue from scratch in C
- Split a program across header and source files and compile them together
Final test and certificate
Students who sit the C Programming final and score 50% or more receive a completion certificate from BrainBit Infotech Private Limited, carrying a number anyone can check on our certificate verification page.
Questions teachers ask
Does this cover a full first-semester C paper?
Yes — 11 modules from the compilation pipeline through pointers, structures and file handling, then linked lists, stacks and queues, which is the shape most BCA, diploma and B.Tech syllabi use.
Can a school student use it?
Yes. Days 1 to 14 are the whole first-language syllabus and need nothing beyond a free compiler. The day-wise plan says where a school class can stop; Days 18 to 20 are the data structures paper and are marked as college work.
Is the code on the slides runnable?
Every program in the deck was compiled with gcc -Wall -Wextra and run before it went on a slide, and the output shown is that run's real output.
Do we need to install anything?
Only a free C compiler — GCC on Windows, Linux or macOS, or Code::Blocks if you prefer an IDE. The slides themselves open in any browser and need no internet.