Learn C by reading what the machine actually does.

What C is, how a program becomes an executable, and your first build.

Declaring storage, the built-in types, and how much room each one takes.

Arithmetic, comparison, logic, and the precedence rules that bind them.

Talking to the terminal with printf and scanf, and their format specifiers.

Branching with if, else, and switch — and how truth works in C.

Repetition with while, do-while, and for, plus break and continue.

Splitting programs into reusable pieces: declarations, scope, and recursion.

Contiguous blocks of the same type, indexing, and iterating over them.

Why C strings are just arrays of char ending in a zero byte.

Variables that hold addresses: the idea that everything else builds on.

Why arr[i] and *(arr + i) are the same thing, and what decays.

Asking the heap for space with malloc, and giving it back with free.

Grouping related values into one type, and passing them around.

Reading and writing files on disk with FILE pointers.

#include, #define, and macros — text substitution before compilation.

Header files, the compile-then-link model, and keeping code organized.

The mistakes every C programmer makes once, and how to catch them.

Projects to build and topics to explore once the basics are solid.