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Shoutout to other students trying to learn a semester of classes in 1 night, we can do it D':

For people still confused on Pointers, I thought of a little analogy: Say your friend wants to know where you live. Think of your hometown as memory, with lots of houses being stored (variables), and addresses to locate them (pointers). You wouldn't show your friend, say, a picture of your house and expect them to find it quickly. Therefore, you would give your friend your house's address (a pointer), so they can locate it easily. Now, let's put it to proper terms. C wants to know what the variable you're referring to is. You have memory, with lots of variables being stored, and addresses to locate them. You can't give C your variable name and expect C to find it amongst all of your other variables, so you refer to its address as a pointer so C can easily locate it. Hope this helped :) Edit: thanks for all the love this comment got

You're just too detailed and sequential. If we had lecturers like you at all universities, we would be overloaded with programmers in the world. Thanks man

I knew nothing about programming a month ago, and this guy helped me pass the course

I am 51 year old woman, who studied computer science at school. I really loved it, but then I got a rubbish computer science teacher and destroyed my love of the subject. I am now studying your course because I want to become a computer programmer. Thankyou for not putting ads in and for being an amazing, to the point, no waffle teacher. Honestly you are a good man and are truly inspiring people of all ages, sexes and nation xxxxx

Shout out to everyone who are trying to utilize this quarantine to do something productive.

I passed my exam with your help

Thank you Mike!, for all this courses and helping the people to improve in life, this is not a lot but one day I will make sure to help more people like you.

they designed an almost 4 hr tutorial and they have not given any ads though they can earn lots of money from ads ....this shows how much they care for their viewers they deserve 100M subs for sure ....totally loved their course .....thanks to the free code camp team...

Literally this is what my 1st semester was all about and he even explained the topics better within just 3 hours!

1:03:30 If you're using the code runner in VS Code and you're not getting the output you want, it's because you have to run the code in the Terminal instead of the Output. Go to Settings (Ctrl + ,), then search for "code runner", then turn on Code-runner: Run In Terminal.

the great thing about this course is that after every little part, he starts explaining previous functions as if it's the first time we see them and that makes it so much easier to instill those notions

Finally, free courses by an instructor with good English

engineering first year whole syllabus in 4 hrs NOICE

I had C in my last semester and I totally understood it because of you. Please do a Java tutorial, you are really great at this.

Yo been looking for a video like this for ages. EVERY other "beginner" video skips the first simple steps and starts off talking about stuff we noobz have no idea about. This dude is actually taking the time and it's very much appreciated!

*copy pasted from description because i use mobile Course Contents ⌨️ (0:00:00) Introduction ⌨️ (0:01:22) Windows Setup ⌨️ (0:05:02) Mac Setup ⌨️ (0:09:04) Hello World ⌨️ (0:12:51) Drawing a Shape ⌨️ (0:20:56) Variables ⌨️ (0:32:25) Data Types ⌨️ (0:38:32) Printf ⌨️ (0:45:22) Working With Numbers ⌨️ (0:52:20) Comments ⌨️ (0:56:00) Constants ⌨️ (1:00:13) Getting User Input ⌨️ (1:12:08) Building a Basic Calculator ⌨️ (1:17:43) Building a Mad Libs Game ⌨️ (1:26:29) Arrays ⌨️ (1:36:44) Functions ⌨️ (1:45:37) Return Statement ⌨️ (1:53:21) If Statements ⌨️ (2:07:11) Building a Better Calculator ⌨️ (2:14:51) Switch Statements ⌨️ (2:21:27) Structs ⌨️ (2:29:43) While Loops ⌨️ (2:37:48) Building a Guessing Game ⌨️ (2:50:11) For Loops ⌨️ (2:59:05) 2D Arrays & Nested Loops ⌨️ (3:09:10) Memory Addresses ⌨️ (3:17:20) Pointers ⌨️ (3:27:41) Dereferencing Pointers ⌨️ (3:32:37) Writing Files ⌨️ (3:41:52) Reading Files

0:00:00) Introduction ⌨️ (0:01:22) Windows Setup ⌨️ (0:05:02) Mac Setup ⌨️ (0:09:04) Hello World ⌨️ (0:12:51) Drawing a Shape ⌨️ (0:20:56) Variables ⌨️ (0:32:25) Data Types ⌨️ (0:38:32) Printf ⌨️ (0:45:22) Working With Numbers ⌨️ (0:52:20) Comments ⌨️ (0:56:00) Constants ⌨️ (1:00:13) Getting User Input ⌨️ (1:12:08) Building a Basic Calculator ⌨️ (1:17:43) Building a Mad Libs Game ⌨️ (1:26:29) Arrays ⌨️ (1:36:44) Functions ⌨️ (1:45:37) Return Statement ⌨️ (1:53:21) If Statements ⌨️ (2:07:11) Building a Better Calculator ⌨️ (2:14:51) Switch Statements ⌨️ (2:21:27) Structs ⌨️ (2:29:43) While Loops ⌨️ (2:37:48) Building a Guessing Game ⌨️ (2:50:11) For Loops ⌨️ (2:59:05) 2D Arrays & Nested Loops ⌨️ (3:09:10) Memory Addresses ⌨️ (3:17:20) Pointers ⌨️ (3:27:41) Dereferencing Pointers ⌨️ (3:32:37) Writing Files ⌨️ (3:41:52) Reading Files

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A programmer was going out and his wife to him "While you are outside, please buy some milk". The programmer never came back.

This is a GREAT tutorial and you are a GREAT instructor!!! Everything was so clearly explained. I love that you differentiated the "i" and "j" variables used simply as counters in many "for loops" and the "i" and "j" variables that are used to reference array index locations in nested "for loops". I've been through so many courses where this goes unmentioned and creates so much unnecessary confusion. Many thanks to you for making this course!!!

Coming from a c#/js background here and it's interesting how familiar everything is! Like there are some "quirks" but otherwise it's all very familiar, more than I thought given the age differences. Switch statement seems to be identical. Struct seems to be a model but probably only superficially.

dude mike knows every coding language Jesus

1 hour and 45 minutes in and I understand more than I understood in one semester at the university. You definitely know how to teach, straight to the point. Thank you!

I major in electrical engineering.and I have an internship that is required C programming next week,tho.This is a life saver.Thanks a bunch.

Using this to further help me understand my module and this is honestly one of the best sources I've come across thus far. Very coherent and easy to understand, as well as follow.

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Started on 08-09-2022 and finished on 10-09-2022. This was my first class on programming. Thankyou Mike.

i just watched this before my exam and its 2 am rn, having exam at 11am this same day and i can say this is very helpfull for just one time listening. actually insane and i love you guys. keep up the work im gonna come back here. got yourself a new sub

Dear Sir, you are truly talented at explaining things in a logical and intuitive order. I have started a couple of tutorials and quit because the teacher gives explanations where he refers to things he will explain, not things he has explained. This is the first C tutorial I have followed flawlessly, because each new lesson depends only on the lessons before. And you are great at making your audience feel confident they understand. Thank you!

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I’m just watching this video a day to my C exam😂😭.. a whole semester in a night... To future generation seeing this please Mike explained it so well but make sure you watch it before the dates of your exam... my head is literally removing smoke😂😂😩

I came across this video while starting to code in C as a Beginner, thank you for the lessons you have discussed and I'll be sure to continue to watch more in the future!!

Someone give this guy a medal for his amazing service to us noobs at c

"People overcomplicate pointers, they don't have to be complicated" Next recomended video: "Pointers in C/C++" with 3 hours and 47 minutes of duration

For those who cannot run the code in the section "working with numbers", you also need to put "#include " to include the math library in order for it to be defined and run without error.

I’m 20 minutes in just trying to regain my confidence after being stuck on CS50x week 3, realising I have learned basically next to nothing. You explain everything so much better, although I’ve only just began this video, I can already tell it’s going to help me immensely. Thank you

I was always afraid of programming, because my teacher ruined my interest. After watching your tutorial, I want to learn programming again. You are a good teacher.

Shout out to the people taking the initiative and doing this themselves.

I came over from CS50 as it was hard to understand the basic theory underlying taking the course but you! explain the basics sooooo well and it's really easy to understand! Amazing! Thank you so much!!

I remember Mike starting these tutorials 2 years ago. I was lying in bed listening to this today and i was like " who is this guy?" Everything seemed to flow so naturally and conversationally. This is a masterpiece of teaching that only 1-in-a-thousand teachers will ever achieve. If he was a University level teacher, his work would be sought out and legend. Unbelievable.

I had this video playing at 2 times speed and you have taught me more in 1 hour 53 minutes than my professor has taught me all semester! Thanksss!!!

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thank you man, you explained all of this under 4 hours while in uni it took us whole semester

You have no idea how useful you video was, you explained my entire semester much better that my lecture and made C fun for me. Thank you

I enrolled at university last year for bachelors in computer systems engineering so it obviously involves a lot of coding. I have never learned to code before and thanks to my lecturer in the first year, he completely ruined coding for me, by dodging all the basics🤬 Here I am in my second year, trying to make the impossible happen and learn C within 2 days so that I can submit an assignment that is solely based on it. Your tutorials are extremely helpful and I can finally hope to create a functional code. Thank you, I'm legit in tears 😭 Never understood C before or coding for that matter 😫

i thought I was gonna fail my c course this semester cause I wasn't understanding what my professor was saying but you changed my life. playing with code is actually fun for me now! i love you. ok bye.

I have been stuck on Week 2 of CS50x longer than I'd like to say and using this course for supplementary understanding has help me gain SO MUCH clarity on the topic. Better than the Harvard class if you ask me by far! Thank you!

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This video was absolutely brilliant for anyone wanting to learn C. I am writing a program in C for an assignment and only have very limited experience in R and Python. This video made C easy to understand and didn't overcomplicate it focusing on key aspects. Definitely recommend watching it if your interested!

I learnt more from this video than I did with 100 hours of class at college Thank you so much🙏🙏 He is such a great teacher. I wish my teacher was at least 1% asgood as he is 😢😪

Great video. The explanation was very thorough, and following along in my own IDE was not a hassle. Thank you so much!

This dude is a legend, I was trying to find a decent C course and IT IS REALLY hard, thanks Mike.

Me after 4 hours: "Remember : the pointer is just a memory address."

21:00 variables 32:27 Data types 38:32 Printf 45:23 working with numbers 52:22 Comments 56:01 Constants 1:00:14 Getting User Input 1:12:08 Building a Basic Calculator 1:17:44 Building a Mad Libs Games 1:26:32 Arrays/Variables 1:36:44 Functions 1:45:38 Return Statement

this guy did in less than 4 hours what my professors couldn't do in entire semesters, made an effective and easily digestible lesson. I like that the sections and the examples in them were concise but still included thoroug explanations whenever there was something unfamiliar on the screen. a big misstep that a lot of professors do is either assume you already know certain things, or don't care whether you do or don't, and then they sprinkle in these seemingly random ideas you've never seen before with what they're trying to teach you and don't actually bother to explain them. this man did a fantastic job communicating these concepts, thank you very much for offering your teachings, good sir!

I will highly recommend this guy's video to anyone trying to improve or get a better in understanding c-programming.... This really helped me alot

great content! I appreciate how you've explained everything from scratch, that too in such a clear and precise manner. 3 hours down (took 6 to get here), and I'm still with you! your narration style is perfect, keeps you calm AND engaged. thank you!

This is almost 3 months of my first c course in college. Very usefull, glad I could remember it in a very simple way.

This guy made me start and love programming. He taught me html and css.He is a LEGEND AND MAY Allah continue to bless you

Thank you so much for this video! First year of uni is kicking my butt but you guys have been my saving grace.

You explained my ENTIRE C course in 1 video. Why do I even attend colleg elol

This guy is brilliant. He makes me believe that I'm literally capable of learning programming language LOL

Hey Mike! Thank you very much for making this type of lecture which is very useful to everyone who are facing troubles in understanding 'C' in their college....

thankyou so much man, at my university I recently started class on C & C++. issue is, I haven't coded in 3 months and prior to that i had my first semester EVER coding, absolutely noob, and we learned java. I got cocky, and realized that i got absolutely decimated when i forgot so many concepts and syntax. this is amazing, quick, concise, and really solid for review. even though alot of the concepts are fairly easy it's very nice to brush up quickly

Just wanted to say THANK YOU!!! I have learned more in this 4 hour course then I have the entire 5 weeks class I just did.

I just finished watching the entire tutorial. It's very helpful and Mike explains the content very well. I've definitely learned a lot and would highly recommend this to others if you haven't watched this already.

This is really helpful, especially because our teacher cannot be bothered actually teaching us. Although a lot of the ones using scanf don't work in Visual Studio and our school requires us to use that it.

I only knew javascript and in two days I watched this video, and thanks to this video I 've done succesfully a challenge from a competitive coding tournament. You are amazing.

I'm taking CS50 online fro Harvard and your video really helped clear things up, THANK YOU!

2:29:10 - Jim's a business major and Pam's an art major. Guess someone's a big "The Office" fan xD EDIT - 3:38:43 - haha guess I was right

More than a year ago, I learnt HTML from this guy and I'm still doing it but now I'm moving to embedded systems engineering and I'm here via a recommendation, wish me luck

i am actually a data science student. it was because of you that i fell in love with python. now that i am learning C i came back to watch once again your tutorial. keep going bro. you're the best so far. hope you'll read my comment.

Thank you! I really wish I had started here when learning C - I have tried so many courses and materials to learn C and this finally made everything stick/filled in the gaps. I know some people are commenting about all the times you mentioned that "A pointer is just a memory address, that's all" but I (and I'm sure others) have gotten so many complicated explanations about pointers that it's really helpful to hear multiple times.

Thanks Dude! This video is really getting me into C basics, as a complete begginer and starting to study Computer Science you helped me a lot! Still half a video to watch and at this point I feel that I'v learned so much! My journey beggins here. You were part of it, thank you.

Thanks for making this video tutorial . I've learned something new! Been wanting to learn the basic before and you guys showed a good stepping stone for me to learn

I learned more about C with this video than in my entire engineering degree. Thank you so much!!!

this dude dont even say thank u for watching and subscribe at the end, what a legend. Thanks ma man

Just finished this amazing course! Since I had previous experience with python, I was familiar with most of the concepts in this video, and this made me pretty confident in coding in C. And the fact that it is 100% free really amazes me. Great content out there!

Thank you sir, I hope everyone watching this may learn and prosper as well.

I just finished this full tutorial. This is my first programming language that I learnt. Thank you so much for such detail oriented work. Really appreciate it. ☺

Me: trying to watch this video. youtube recommended: not everyone should code.

This dude has taught me more stuff in 3 hours than my prof in 3 years

THIS is already so much more helpful than my professor's lectures.THANK YOU!!

Hi Mike! I've just finished watching your SQL Tutorial video and I'm very delighted to find you in C Tutorial as well! You're excellent at teaching and explaining all this stuff

I can't believe I spent 30$ on a course in udemy when this video is so much better

I struggled to go through the Harvard CS50 course, and this vid helped me a lot. A huge thank you, Mike!

that office reference XD programming caught my attention again recently but every time I've looked into it I never could make any sense of anything until seeing this video and now I'm starting to understand how things are structured he is a great teacher

I want to show my appreciation and respect to the instructor and all the organizing team to let this awesome tutorial to be able to put on KZfaq. I had a great time learning this language, and it really did help me a lot! Thanks again for this awesome journey!! Love from Taiwan.

Even I just know a little English, but I still get your lesson in a clear way! Thanks a lot for your English accent particularly and your knowledge in general!

Thanks for the course, easily put across and easy to understand. Great job ! and wonderful refresher for me!

The fact that this guy has almost completed whole tutorial without any flaws or mistakes, youtube never was able to correctly spell C in the subtitles instead it said seee 🤕 KZfaq subtitles can go broke but , mikes knowledge can never go wrong. Hats off to you Mike Dane 🤠.

00:21 Introduction 01:35 Basics of computer programming 03:49 Format specifiers 06:31 First computer program 07:27 Character sets & constants 08:55 Basic data types, int, char & float 09:52 Variable declaration & initialisation 14:17 Basic operators 17:12 Arithmetic instructions Arithmetic operations 18:18 Addition,Subtraction,Multiplication & Division 21:31 Area of Circle & Triangle 24:23 Simple Interest 25:44 Square & Cube 26:51 Total & average 29:00 SWAP two numbers Escape Sequences 32:14 Theory 34:26 Drawing a tree using escape sequences IF & IF ELSE 35:19 Syntax 40:17 Largest of two numbers 41:02 Positive or not 42:17 Greater or less than 10 43:08 Even/odd 44:09 Divisible by 5 44:59 Multiple of 7 45:45 Compare two numbers 46:55 Logical operators 50:07 3 numbers in ascending/descending order 53:01 Calculate discriminant & roots of a quadratic equation 54:29 Calculate grade 56:22 Check marriage eligibility 59:01 Conditional operators While & Do While Loop 01:00:47 Why do we need loops 01:02:24 DO-WHILE & WHILE loops Syntax 01:03:49 WHILE vs Do-WHILE loop 01:04:21 Increment & Decrement Operators 01:07:39 N numbers in sequence 01:09:53 N numbers in reverse order 01:11:10 First N even numbers 01:12:29 N odd numbers 01:13:40 Reverse order of a number 01:16:20 Sum of a number 01:18:48 Armstrong or not For loops 01:23:39 Syntax 01:27:27 Table of given number 01:29:40 Sum of a number FOR loops-Pattern Programming 01:32:34 Pattern programming theory 01:34:42 ◸ of * 01:37:51 ◺ of * 01:40:23 ◿ of * 01:43:38 ◹ of * 01:47:37 █ of * 01:50:39 ▵ of * 01:54:14 ▽ of * 01:56:58 ♢ of * 01:58:11 ◺ of numbers -vertical 02:01:01 ◺ of numbers -horizontal 02:02:51 ▵ of alphabets 02:05:48 ▵ mirroring alphabets 02:09:25 ◺ of integers with integer at the end Advance FOR Loop programs 02:11:47 Factorial 02:16:18 Prime numbers from range 02:22:29 Prime or not 02:27:43 Fibonacci series 02:33:29 Print digits, alphabets using loops 02:36:37 Factorial 02:40:30 Average of numbers 02:43:04 ASCII chart 02:44:21 Rectangular pattern of * 02:46:38 Rectangular pattern using ASCII characters Goto, break & Continue 02:48:59 goto keyword 02:51:12 break & continue keyword Switch case 02:53:39 The syntax of the switch case-control structure 02:55:54 Case-control structures in more detail 02:59:30 Print integers in words 03:00:36 Numbers in words in reverse order using switch case-control 03:02:29 Perform arithmetic operations based on the users choice Functions 03:04:06 What are functions? 03:06:25 Parametrised functions 03:09:18 Addition,subtraction,multiplication,division using functions 03:11:54 Factorial,prime or not & Fibonacci series using functions 03:14:07 Calculate square & cube using functions Arrays 03:16:14 Theory 03:18:11 Single dimensional arrays 03:22:49 Accept array elements & reprint 03:25:36 array elements in reverse order 03:28:11 Addition of array elements 03:30:05 Fibonacci series using arrays 03:32:20 max+min of an array 03:34:46 positive & negative elements of an array 03:37:37 array in ascending/descending order Multidimensional arrays 03:40:01 Theory 03:43:55 Accept MxN matrix & reprint 03:46:41 Add two MxN array matrices 03:48:00 Add array elements of two-dimensional arrays 03:49:10 Diagonal elements of a matrix 03:51:00 Add upper matrix elements 03:52:16 Add lower matrix elements 03:53:42 Multiplication of matrices 03:57:15 Transpose of the matrix Pointers 03:58:57 What are pointers? 04:00:53 Using pointers More on functions 04:02:47 Call by value & call by reference 04:06:49 Swap two numbers using parametrized functions 04:09:48 Scope of a variable 04:13:01 Recursion 04:14:21 Fibonacci series using recursion 04:18:30 Factorial using recursion 04:21:12 Passing arrays to a function Strings 04:25:12 What is a string? 04:28:07 Inbuilt functions 04:30:26 ASCII characters 04:31:19 string reverse, length, uppercase, lowercase & copy 04:33:06 Count alphabets, digits & symbols 04:34:40 Compare two strings 04:35:24 Concatenate two strings 04:36:10 Length of string 04:37:33 Copy a string from another 04:38:39 String uppercase 04:40:24 String lowercase 04:41:25 Join two strings 04:43:58 Count alphabets digits & symbols without using inbuilt functions 04:45:25 Compare two strings without using inbuilt functions 04:47:31 Count vowels 04:48:39 Reverse a string 04:50:36 Palindrome Structures 04:52:34 What are structures? 04:54:57 Create structure Employee, store values & reprint 04:56:22 Array of a structure 04:59:11 Structure within a structure File operations 05:03:36 What are the files? 05:08:06 Read+write to a file character by character 05:12:33 Read+write to a file line by line 05:15:23 Merge two files Command line arguments 05:17:05 Theory 05:18:50 Programs on command line arguments More 05:21:46 Datatypes 05:27:24 Escape sequences 05:30:39 Type casting 05:32:50 Enumeration 05:35:30 Bitwise operators 05:42:31 Unions

Thanks for this free course, I am begining with C and the truth is that I have been having problems with the algoritms. The course has been very interesting and very useful. Thanks for all.

Dude thanks for this tutorial I’ve really been struggling with c language but you made it so easy to understand

Thank you Mike for this awesome video. I am just 15minutes into this video and I know that I would have learnt so much at the end. C is made simple using your video.