Introduction to Programming Using C
Online support to master C fundamentals with patient, expert guidance.
ChatGPT will hand you a working C program for almost any IPC144 workshop. It compiles, it prints the expected output, and it leaves you with no idea why that loop terminates or where the array index came from. Then a closed book test asks you to trace the code by hand.
C is where this gets expensive fastest. AI writes pointer and memory code that compiles and still leaks, reads past the end of a buffer, or crashes on the marker data, and you cannot debug what you never reasoned through. Pointers, arrays, and strings are also the foundation OOP244 and OOP345 sit on, so a gap here does not stay hidden, it just gets deeper.
Workshop submissions get defended in person. Your professor can ask what that pointer points at, or why the function takes an address instead of a value. So we keep AI in your workflow and change what you ask it for: explanations, hints, and practice problems instead of finished answers. You still write and submit your own work, and you can explain every line of it.
Yes, and you are nowhere near the first. There is no lecture about it. We find out what you genuinely know, rebuild the handful of C concepts holding everything else up, and get you to the point where you can write and explain your own code with the tab closed. None of this makes you a bad student. It makes you a student learning to code in the AI era.
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