C Programming Explained Better: A guide for absolute beginners

Hi! So let me tell you the story behind this book. One day, back in September of 2019 I had decided (out of the blue) to study the C programming language. The problem was, I was having trouble understanding the material. I kept buying book after book hoping that the next book will be different. I ended up with 10 different books on the C language and I was not happy with any of them. Even though it was a real struggle for me to learn the C programming language, I had fallen in love with C. I had never studied anything so fiercely in my entire life. I finally came to the realization that C can be a very easy language to learn, but only if the material is delivered in the proper way; hence, this book. Yes, it is true that I only have a few of years of experience, but this not necessarily a bad thing. I am not so far away from a beginner that I wouldn't be able to relate to a person that's just starting out with C. In fact, I tried very hard to keep the beginner's perspective in mind while writing this book. This book does not assume that you have any programming experience whatsoever. The sole aim of this book is to teach you the core basics of the C programming language – and to do so as painlessly as possible. All of the lessons have been thoughtfully placed in a very specific order so that one lesson eases into the next. This brain-friendly book is printed in color, and is rich with example programs, screenshots, diagrams, and tables. Please see the picture gallery given below for sample screenshots. The book begins by showing you how to download and install the free development tools (no matter the operating system) that you need to compile the book's example programs into working executable files. It then takes your hand and...with baby steps...walks you through all of the core basics - all the way to up to linked-lists and beyond. TABLE OF CONTENTS C 1: Getting started C 2: The printf() Function C 3: Variables C 4: The scanf() Function C 5: Character Arrays C 6: Relational Tests and the if Statement C 7: A New Bag of Tricks C 8: Loop Statements C 9: Nested Statements C 10: The Switch Statement C 11: The else and else if Statements C 12: The Conditional Operator C 13: Looping Up Some Numbers C 14: Some Loop Helpers C 15: The for Loop C 16: The Logical Operators C 17: String Helpers C 18: Data Types Revisited C 19: Time and Time Delay C 20: Getting Random C 21: The clock() Function C 22: Exponents, Logarithms, and Roots C 23: The Floating-Point Data Type C 24: Trigonometry and the Trigonometric Functions C 25: Bits, Bytes, and the Binary Language C 26: The Bitwise Operators C 27: The Super Powers of Hexadecimal C 28: The Wizardry Behind The Floating-Point Data Type C 29: Pointers C 30: All About Arrays C 31: Pointer Arrays C 32: Organizing Your Programs With Functions C 33: Parallel Arrays C 34: Shuffling and Sorting Arrays C 35: Using Heap Memory C 36: Multidimensional Arrays C 37: Advanced Pointer Notation C 38: Structures C 39: Unions, Enumerations, and Bit Fields C 40: Linked Lists C 41: The Preprocessor Directives C 42: Using Multiple Source Files C 43: The Compilation Process C 44: Inline Functions C 45: Passing Arguments From the Command Line C 46: Saving Data to Disk C 47: Working With Binary Files Appendix A: Some Final Thoughts Appendix B: A Potpourri of Programs Appendix C: Keywords Appendix D: Precedence of Operators Appendix E: The ASCII Table Index