C Video Tutorial 6

Welcome to part 6 of my C video tutorial. Today I'm going to cover Unions, Enumerated Types, the Designated Initializer, Using unions in Structs, Recursive Structures, Linked Lists and much more.

I'm also going to experiment with a new style that is more interactive and I hope it feels more like a classroom setting. Throughout the tutorial I will constantly insert brain teasers. Hopefully they aren't distracting. I do this every once in a while to try and improve.

[derekbanas]

Thank you :) Yes I figured since everyone else makes slow tutorials that I'd be different and make fast ones. i'm glad you like them.

[derekbanas]

I try to do my best :) Feel free to tell me if I didn't make topics easy to understand though. I tried to teach in a new way. Feel free to tell me if it didn't work. I very much appreciate constructive criticism.

[derekbanas]

Thank you very much :) I kind of enjoy my little community. I'm very happy to have the roughly 1, 000 devoted viewers. I feel like I know them which is really great!

[kunalfrnd]

Sir, You've made me habitual. If I have any doubts, first I search whether you have  covered it or not. 
Thank You.

[derekbanas]

It is fun for me to play around with new ways of teaching. I'm trying to figure out how I could constantly quiz throughout the tutorials while also moving along at a good speed. I'll revisit unions and pointers as the tutorial continues. Very few people are able to follow a tutorial like this. That is why I'm positive I have the smartest community on YouTube :)

[derekbanas]

Thank you very much for taking the time to say you like the video. It is sometimes hard for me to tell if I'm doing a good job. In this tutorial I have been experimenting with a few new ways of teaching. If there is anything specifically you'd like to see, feel free to leave requests.

[derekbanas]

Thank you :) I'm very happy that you liked it. I'm trying some new ideas on how to teach.

[japanuser]

Hey Coach, just wanted to quote Churchill here who aptly sums this channel's intellectual generosity

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
― Winston Churchill

[derekbanas]

Yes my goal with every video is to make everything easy to understand while keeping the viewer engaged. I still haven't come close to perfecting the style, but I continue to work at it.

[alpenwasser]

I have to admit I really love C. I know some people think it's way too archaic for our modern times, but I just really like it.
Arduino+C sounds intriguing I must say. :)

[derekbanas]

I used to write device drivers a few years back so I know assembly, but I want to put it off until I cover basic electronics. I think it would be more fun to cover then. Thanks for the request :)

[derekbanas]

I haven't decided yet how much I'll cover. I will definitely cover the entire core language. If I would do a GUI tutorial I'd want to go cross platform and cover GTK+ or qt which aren't covered very often. I don't know if anyone is interested in that or not?

[derekbanas]

That is coming very soon. Don't worry I'll cover everything

[derekbanas]

A block in memory is big enough to hold the largest possible value. This tutorial has a few quizzes in it to make you think about why we get the results we are getting. I explore not only unions, but also how we can be tricked into thinking things while programming. Re-watch it from that perspective and see if you can figure out what is going on. I made this video to make people think about programming on a deeper level.

[derekbanas]

Thank you :) I'll definitely cover those topics. Thank you for the requests

[derekbanas]

Thank you for the compliments :) If you don't know any other languages it is better to start with an easier language like python. Python is really fun to program with and it is pretty powerful.

[alpenwasser]

Ever since stumbling your Java tutorials (not really into that, but the tutorials are excellent either way) I have been waiting for some C (or C++) goodness from you.
And bloody hell, I have not been disappointed, really great series, Derek!

[derekbanas]

Thank you very much :) Im really enjoying this series. There are so many fun project based tutorials I could make with C. Ill be bouncing back and forth between C and Android for a while. I have been thinking about maybe getting into Arduino with C. I'd love some input from you guys on what you'd like to see

[mathiasror]

These tutorials are absolutely awesome!

[befosocial]

Next semester i am tutor at my university in Ger and i have to teach my course C. I think i will refer thereto it is pretty well explained and the most difficult thing in teaching is to find a way to explain something in a way everyone understands.