Project Based Tutorials in C

A list of tutorials that work towards the making of a complete project in C.

Table of Contents

• Computer Architecture
• Computer Networking
• Databases
• Game Development
• Operating Systems
• Programming Languages
• Uncategorized

Computer Architecture

Emulator

• Emulator 101
• Gameboy Emulator Development video
• Writing a Chip 8 Emulator in-progress
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
• Writing a Game Boy emulator

Virtual Machine

• Implementing a Virtual Machine in C
• Write your Own Virtual Machine

Other

• Bitwise video abandoned

Computer Networking

• Beej's Guide to Network Programming book
• Concurrent Servers
• HTTP Server: Everything you need to know to Build a simple HTTP server from scratch
• Let's code a TCP/IP stack
  • Part 1: Ethernet & ARP
  • Part 2: IPv4 & ICMPv4
  • Part 3: TCP Basics & Handshake
  • Part 4: TCP Data Flow & Socket API
  • Part 5: TCP Retransmission
• Let's make a NTP Client in C
• Write an MQTT broker from scratch
  • Part 1 - The protocol
  • Part 2 - Networking
  • Part 3 - Server
  • Part 4 - Data structures
  • Part 5 - Topic abstraction
  • Part 6 - Handlers

Databases

• Let's Build a Simple Database

Game Development

Game Consoles

• How to Program an NES game in C
• Learn How To Develop Your Own GameBoy Games video in-progress
• Writing a Game Boy Advance Game

OpenGL (GLFW/GLEW)

• Space Invaders from Scratch (C/C++)
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer)

• Create a Game Loop using C and SDL course
• Learn Video Game Programming in C video
• Let's Make: Dangerous Dave video
• Let's make Tetris with SDL video abandoned
  • Part 1 - Linking with SDL
  • Part 2 - Creating a Window
  • Part 3 - Creating the Renderer
  • Part 4 - Drawing a board
• SDL2 Game Tutorials
  • Creating a 2D platformer
  • Creating a 2D shoot 'em up
  • Creating a 2D top-down shooter
  • Creating a Sprite Atlas
  • Working with TTF Fonts
  • Creating a Simple 2D Adventure Game
  • Creating a Basic Widget System
  • Creating a 2D Vertical Shoot'em Up Game
  • Creating a 2D Run and Gun Game
  • Creating a Roguelike Game
  • Creating a Lookup System
  • Creating a In-game Achievement System
• SDL 2 Isometric Game Tutorial video
• Tic-tac-toe Game in C with SDL video
• Write The Old-School Fire Effect and Bare-Metal Programming in Assembly and C
• Writing 2D Games in C using SDL video

Text-Based (CLI/ASCII/ncruses)

• Chess Engine In C video
• Coding A Sudoku Solver in C video
• Coding a Rogue/Nethack RPG in C video
• Games programming from the ground up with C
• Hangman video
• How to Program a Text Adventure in C in-progress
• Implementing Solitaire in C
• On Tetris and Reimplementation
• Simple Tic Tac Toe in C video
• Text Adventure video abandoned
  • Episode 1
  • Episode 2
• The C Roguelike Tutorial Series

Win32 (Windows API)

• Handmade Hero video in-progress (C/C++)
• Making a game in C from scratch video
• Making a Video Game from Scratch in C video in-progress

Other

• Astroids Clone
• Brickout Clone
• Embedded Game Programming
  • Part 0: Motivation
  • Part 1: Build System
  • Part 2: Input
  • Part 3: Display
  • Part 4: Storage
  • Part 5: Battery
  • Part 6: Audio
  • Part 7: Text
  • Part 7: Tile System
• Invaders Clone
• Video Game Physics Tutorial
  • Part I: An Introduction to Rigid Body Dynamics
  • Part II: Collision Detection for Solid Objects
  • Part III: Constrained Rigid Body Simulation
• Write Othello Game from scratch in C

Operating Systems

• Build a minimal multi-tasking OS kernel for ARM from scratch
• Build Your Own Shell
• Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi
• Hack the Virtual Memory
• How to Write a Bootloader from Scratch
• How to Create an OS from Scratch in-progress
• Learning KVM - implement your own kernel
• Learning operating system development using Linux kernel and Raspberry Pi in-progress
• Let's build a shell!
• Let's Write a Malloc
• Let’s write a Kernel
  • Part 1 - Kernel 101
  • Part 2 - Kernel 201
• Linux Containers in 500 Lines of Code
• Operating systems development for Dummies
• Operating Systems: From 0 to 1 book
• OS161: Everything you need to learn about operating systems course
• Re-Writing BSD 4.4 Shell Commands: video
  • cat
  • chmod
  • echo
  • mkdir
• Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS
• The little book about OS development book
• Write a Shell in C
• Write a Simple Memory Allocator
• Write a System Call
• Writing a "bare metal" operating system for Raspberry Pi 4
• Writing a FUSE Filesystem
• Writing a shell in C
• Writing a Unix Shell
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3

Programming Languages

• A Compiler Writing Journey
• A Regular Expression Matcher
• A Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast
• Baby's First Garbage Collector
• Build Your Own Lisp book
• Compiler Design in C book
• Crafting Interpreters book (Chapters 14 - 30)
• Let's Build a Compiler: A C & x86 version
• Let's Write a Compiler
  • Part 1: Introduction, selecting a language, and doing some planning
  • Part 2: A lexer
  • Part 3: A parser
  • Part 4: Testing
  • Part 5: A code generator
  • Part 6: Input and output
  • Part 7: Arrays
  • Part 8: Strings, forward references, and conclusion
• Write a C Interpreter
  • Part 0 - Preface
  • Part 1 - Skeleton
  • Part 2 - Virtual Machine
  • Part 3 - Lexer
  • Part 4 - Top-down Parsing
  • Part 5 - Variables
  • Part 6 - Functions
  • Part 7 - Statements
  • Part 8 - Expressions
• Writing a C Compiler in-progress
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
  • Part 6
  • Part 7
  • Part 8
  • Part 9
  • Part 10
• Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C
• Scheme from Scratch
  • Part 1 - Introduction
  • Part 2 - Integers
  • Part 3 - Booleans
  • Part 4 - Characters
  • Part 5 - Strings
  • Part 6 - The Empty List
  • Part 7 - Pairs
  • Part 8 - Symbols
  • Part 9 - Quote
  • Part 10 - Environments
  • Part 11 - if
  • Part 12 - Primitive Procedures Part 1
  • Part 13 - Primitive Procedures Part 2
  • Part 14 - Lambda the Ultimate
  • Part 15 - Begin
  • Part 16 - Cond
  • Part 17 - Let
  • Part 18 - And and Or
  • Part 19 - Apply
  • Part 20 - Eval
  • Part 21 - I/O
  • Part 22 - Standard Library
  • Part 23 - Garbage Collection
  • Part 24 - Conclusion

Uncategorized

• A dummy blockchain implementation in C
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• Build Your Own Text Editor
• How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines abandoned
• Learn FFmpeg libav the Hard Way in-progress
• Write a hash table in C
• Write BigInt Calculator in C
• Write Your Own Zip from scratch in C
• Writing an SVG Library