🔧 C
Learn C from the Basics
C — the historic language at the root of nearly every modern programming language — taught from the ground up across 68 lessons. Since C can't run directly in a browser, each lesson checks whether what you typed matches the reference code, giving you instant feedback without ever leaving the page.
What is C used for?
C was born in the 1970s and remains, to this day, the language operating systems, embedded devices, and countless other pieces of core infrastructure are written in. Its syntax directly shaped Python, Java, JavaScript, and most other languages you'll encounter, which is why learning C deepens your understanding of programming itself. Working directly with pointers and manual memory management makes it a demanding language to pick up, but that same low-level control is exactly what makes C indispensable wherever performance and precision matter most.
Common uses & related roles:
- Operating system development
- Embedded systems
- Device driver development
- Compilers and interpreters
- High-performance computing
- 01Getting Started
- 02Your First Output (printf)
- 03Working with Variables
- 04Conditionals (if statements)
- 05Loops (for statements)
- 06Writing a Function
- 07Working with Arrays
- 08Loops (while statements)
- 09Working with Structs
- 10Error Handling (Checking a Return Value)
- 11Sorting an Array (Bubble Sort)
- 12Recursive Functions
- 13The String-Handling Standard Library
- 14The switch Statement
- 15The Ternary Operator
- 16Pointer Basics
- 17Writing Comments
- 18Logical Operators (&&, ||, !)
- 19Constants (#define and const)
- 20Splitting Strings (strtok)
- 21Handling NULL Pointers Safely
- 22Searching an Array (Looping with strcmp)
- 23Transforming an Array (map-like Logic)
- 24Two-Dimensional Arrays (Tabular Data)
- 25Custom Errors (Categorizing with Error Codes)
- 26Using Variable-Length Argument Lists (stdarg.h)
- 27Removing Duplicates from an Array (Set-Like Logic)
- 28Checking Correctness with the assert Macro (Your First Step into Testing)
- 29Higher-Order Functions (Passing a Function Pointer as an Argument)
- 30Stacks and Queues (Basic Data Structures)
- 31Type Conversion (Casting) Basics
- 32Intro to Regular Expressions (regex.h)
- 33The Binary Search Algorithm
- 34Building a Caesar Cipher (a Character-Shifting Cipher)
- 35Understanding How Selection Sort Works
- 36Building and Displaying Dates (struct tm)
- 37Writing Multiple Test Cases Together
- 38Speeding Up Calculations with Memoization (Caching)
- 39Normalizing Strings (Stripping Whitespace, Unifying Case)
- 40Shallow Copy vs. Deep Copy
- 41Enum (Enumerated Types) Basics
- 42Flattening an Array
- 43Reversing a String and Checking for Palindromes
- 44Pairing Up Two Arrays (the zip operation)
- 45Rounding Numbers (floor, ceil, round)
- 46Multi-Line Strings (Adjacent String Literal Concatenation)
- 47Functions That Return Multiple Values (Structs)
- 48Finding the GCD and LCM (the Euclidean Algorithm)
- 49Formatting Numbers (Padding Digits, Decimal Places)
- 50Bundling Cleanup Logic with goto
- 51Writing Type-Agnostic Logic with Macros
- 52File Reading and Writing Basics
- 53Generating Random Numbers
- 54Bitwise Operators (AND, OR, XOR, shifts)
- 55Reading Command-Line Arguments
- 56Waiting for a Fixed Amount of Time (sleep)
- 57Watch Out for Floating-Point Rounding Errors
- 58Reading from Standard Input
- 59FizzBuzz (the Classic Practice Problem)
- 60Checking Whether a Number Is Prime
- 61Set Operations with an Array (Intersection, Difference)
- 62Converting Number Bases (Binary, Hex)
- 63Checking Balanced Parentheses (an Application of Stacks)
- 64Checking Whether Two Words Are Anagrams
- 65Checking Whether a Year Is a Leap Year
- 66Converting Temperature (Celsius to Fahrenheit)
- 67Prime Factorization
- 68[Applied] Build a Simple Grade Aggregation Program