The book approaches C without assuming programming knowledge and allows for learning procedural programming. This structure makes the book ideal for educational use. The experienced programmer will find extensive analysis of the language mechanisms and implementations of specialized algorithms and programming techniques.
The following are examined in detail:
- Data types, representations, control statements, and loops
- Functions, pointers, arrays, and recursive functions, search/sort algorithms
- Input/output streams and file handling
- Dynamic memory management and dynamic data structures and their implementation in C
- The C preprocessor and the GCC compiler
- The main functions of the standard C library.

Each chapter includes a brief overview, examples with their solutions, exercises of various difficulty levels, and common mistakes. Also provided are the integrated development environment Code::Blocks, program code, exercise answers, and solution code.

Ability to attend online courses at http://c.bytes.gr/elessons
The book is accompanied by a Detachable Reference Card.