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C Programming with AI: A Complete Beginner's Guide to C Programming, Systems Development, and AI-Assisted Applications
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ISBN13: 9798196905988
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 14 2026
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 14 2026
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Learn the language that built the modern world - and discover how AI tools make mastering C faster than ever before. C Programming with AI is the complete beginner-to-practitioner guide for developers who want to understand computing at its deepest level. Written for 2026, this book takes you from your very first C program all the way to building systems-level applications, working with AI services, and writing the kind of high-performance code that powers operating systems, embedded chips, and AI inference engines. Author Thomas Scott strips away the mystery around C's toughest concepts - pointers, memory management, and low-level systems - and builds your understanding step by step, with real code, real projects, and practical AI tools woven throughout. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
- C fundamentals: variables, data types, operators, input/output, and control flow
- Functions, arrays, strings, and modular programming
- Pointers and memory management - explained clearly and thoroughly
- Structures, unions, enums, and dynamic memory allocation
- File handling, debugging, header files, and the C compilation process
- Advanced topics: recursion, data structures, linked lists, stacks, and queues
- Sorting and searching algorithms, bitwise operations, and system calls
- Multithreading, concurrency basics, and performance optimization
- Writing clean, maintainable C code to professional standards
- AI-assisted development: using AI tools to write, debug, and analyze C code
- Prompt engineering techniques tailored for C programming tasks
- Calling AI APIs and integrating AI services directly from C
- C in embedded systems and high-performance AI inference pipelines
- Five complete real-world projects: a command-line file manager, a custom memory allocator, a mini text search engine, an AI-assisted code analyzer, and a lightweight networked chat client WHY THIS BOOK:
C has been the foundation of computing for over 50 years - and in 2026 its importance is growing, not shrinking. The Linux kernel, SQLite, Git, Redis, Nginx, CPython, and virtually every AI framework at the performance layer are all written in C. As AI moves to the edge - running on microcontrollers and embedded chips with tight memory budgets - C is the only realistic choice. This book gives you genuine, deep fluency in C, and shows you how today's AI tools accelerate every step of the journey. Covers modern C standards throughout, including C17 and C23 improvements. Includes comprehensive appendices covering C syntax, the standard library, pointers, common compiler flags, a full glossary, common error messages and fixes, AI tools for C programmers, learning resources, and project ideas for further practice. Perfect for: complete beginners, computer science students, developers who want to understand how software really works, embedded systems engineers, and anyone building performance-critical or AI-adjacent applications.
- Functions, arrays, strings, and modular programming
- Pointers and memory management - explained clearly and thoroughly
- Structures, unions, enums, and dynamic memory allocation
- File handling, debugging, header files, and the C compilation process
- Advanced topics: recursion, data structures, linked lists, stacks, and queues
- Sorting and searching algorithms, bitwise operations, and system calls
- Multithreading, concurrency basics, and performance optimization
- Writing clean, maintainable C code to professional standards
- AI-assisted development: using AI tools to write, debug, and analyze C code
- Prompt engineering techniques tailored for C programming tasks
- Calling AI APIs and integrating AI services directly from C
- C in embedded systems and high-performance AI inference pipelines
- Five complete real-world projects: a command-line file manager, a custom memory allocator, a mini text search engine, an AI-assisted code analyzer, and a lightweight networked chat client WHY THIS BOOK:
C has been the foundation of computing for over 50 years - and in 2026 its importance is growing, not shrinking. The Linux kernel, SQLite, Git, Redis, Nginx, CPython, and virtually every AI framework at the performance layer are all written in C. As AI moves to the edge - running on microcontrollers and embedded chips with tight memory budgets - C is the only realistic choice. This book gives you genuine, deep fluency in C, and shows you how today's AI tools accelerate every step of the journey. Covers modern C standards throughout, including C17 and C23 improvements. Includes comprehensive appendices covering C syntax, the standard library, pointers, common compiler flags, a full glossary, common error messages and fixes, AI tools for C programmers, learning resources, and project ideas for further practice. Perfect for: complete beginners, computer science students, developers who want to understand how software really works, embedded systems engineers, and anyone building performance-critical or AI-adjacent applications.
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