A snap shot oriented treatise with live engineeringexamples.Each chapter is is supplemented with concept orientedquestions with answers and explanations.Some practical lifeproblems from education, business are included. Contents: brief introduction to computers basics of c language and program development c operators character variables control structures while loop: the dawn of logic string variables the do-while loop for loop one dimensional arrays: excluding strings 2-d character arrays multidimensional arrays functions recursive functions macros and preprocessor directives pointers user-defined variables: structures, unions, enumerators redirection operators and command line arguments data files bit-wise operators functions with variable number of arguments how main executes? Make introduction to graphic programming using c introduction to function pointers mixing c and assembly common programming errors introduction to data structures pattern matching sorting and searching algorithms stack and queues linked lists etc...