It introduces the c programming language to both the computer novices and to the advanced software engineers in a well organized and systematic manner. It does not assume any preliminary knowledge of computer programming of a reader. It covers almost all topics with numerous illustrative examples and well graded problems. Some of the chapters such as pointers, preprocessors, structures, unions and the file operations are thoroughly discussed with suitable number of examples. The source code of the editor package has been included as an appendix of the book. About the author: d. Ravichandran , received his b.e. Degree in electronics and communication engineering from the madurai kamaraj university in 1986 and m.tech. Degree in integrated circuits and systems engineering from the indian institute of technology, kharagpur in 1988. Since 1990, he is a lecturer in the department of computer science and engineering, pondicherry engineering college. Earlier, he has actively involved in vlsi systems design in ceeri, pilani. He has worked in the indian telephone industries ltd., palghat for a year. He is a life member of indian society for technical education. His area of interests are software engineering, design and analysis of algorithms and computer programming languages such as c, c++, pascal, fortran 77 etc. Table of contents: data types, operators and some statements writing a program in c control statements functions and program structures arrays pointers more on functions structures, unions and bit fiel - from Amzon