Featured resource
Tech Upskilling Playbook 2025
Tech Upskilling Playbook

Build future-ready tech teams and hit key business milestones with seven proven plays from industry leaders.

Learn more
  • Path icon Learning Path
  • Libraries: This path is only available in the libraries listed. To access this path, purchase a license for the corresponding library.
  • Core Tech

C Foundations

7 Courses
5 Labs
13 Hours
Skill IQ

C is a structured programming language that combines power with portability. It's the foundation for critical software including operating systems like Windows and Linux, developer tools such as Git, and language implementations like the Python interpreter. As a fundamental language that influences modern programming, C remains essential for system-level programming. It still maintains widespread use in scientific and industrial applications. This beginner-friendly curriculum requires no prior programming experience and focuses on practical C programming fundamentals.

Content in this path

Language Basics

Learn the fundamentals in C syntax, control flows, and modular code

Data Structures

Build and manage compiler data using dynamic structures and custom types

Try this learning path for free
Access this learning path and other top-rated tech content with a free trial.
What You'll Learn
  • Understand core C syntax, program structure, and how to write your first C programs
  • Use control flow statements and define reusable logic through functions
  • Work with pointers for dynamic memory management and low-level operations
  • Manipulate strings and arrays including performing basic string functions manually
  • Build and manage dynamic data structures
  • Read from and write to files and Implement error handling in C
  • Define and use custom data types with structures and unions for efficient data modeling
  • Analyze and implement foundational algorithms
  • Apply debugging strategies and memory analysis tools in C development workflow
  • Gain hands-on coding practice with real-world guided labs
Prerequisites
  • Knowledge of basic programming logic (variables, loops, and conditional statements)
  • Knowledge using a terminal or command-line interface is suggested
Not sure where to start?
With over 500 assessments to choose from, you can see where your skills stand and receive adaptive learning recommendations to fill knowledge gaps in as little as 10 minutes.
Learn more

Join our learners and upskill
in leading technologies