What You'll Learn

9 Chapters · 10 Lessons

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      Setting up Your C Thinking Partner

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      Getting C Running without Knowing What You Are Doing

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      Prompting Your First Useful C Program

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      Understanding Code by Asking Smarter Questions

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      Working with Real Data: Files, Structures, and Memory

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      Building a Real-World Mini Project in C

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      Debugging, Improving, and Refactoring with AI

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      Thinking beyond C: A Transferable Prompt-Driven Learning System

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      Index

About the Course

Most people give up on C before they write a program. The syntax feels arbitrary, the errors are cryptic, and the feedback loop between writing and understanding is painfully slow. Prompting C for Systems Programming changes that entirely by putting AI alongside you from the very first line — explaining what the code does, fixing what breaks, and helping you build real programs before you feel ready. Each chapter follows one simple loop: prompt, run, understand, improve. You use ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Claude, and Amazon CodeWhisperer to write C programs, understand how they work, debug compile-time and runtime errors, work with real data through files, structures, and memory, and complete mini projects that actually do something useful. No syntax memorization. No passive reading. Just you, AI, and a C compiler doing real work together from chapter one. By the end of the book, you will write reliable C programs with genuine confidence, and carry forward a transferable AI-assisted prompting framework you can apply to any programming language you choose to tackle next!

About Your Instructor

Dr. Rupali Chopade is an Associate Professor at DES Pune University, Pune, with over two decades of experience in Computer Science education, research, and curriculum development. Her interests include Database Management Systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Programming, and Software Engineering. She is passionate about AI-enabled teaching and innovative learning methodologies.