This book takes an example-based approach to help learn C quickly and efficiently.

• Students start to program and execute C code from the first pages of the book.

• After a first execution, they start to feel like real programmers.

• C statements are progressively introduced along the examples, gaining intricacy and cleverness very quickly.

• After few pages, students start executing arithmetic calculations, entering and displaying text on screen, manipulating arrays and matrices, working with structures and much more.

• About 100 examples later, our students find themselves making simple artificial intelligence tools such as artificial neural networks (ANN) and genetic algorithms (GA) with both binary-coded and real-coded genes.

• Gain valuable insights on how matrices are manipulated, how numerical methods help us find solutions to non-linear equations, and how artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms perform by using the C language.